Do any of you across this great land swim at a YMCA indoor facility that does NOT automatically close the pool whenever there are thunderstorms in the area?
Two of our three practices this week have been cancelled because of thunderstorms.
On another thread, someone posted how the total number of deaths from indoor pool electrocutions during thunderstorms--in the history of the world--total precisely zero.
I have made this argument endlessly to our Y authorities, all to no avail. Two university pools--Pitt and CMU--do NOT close their indoor pools because of lightning and, in fact, find the concept chortlesome.
If you do swim at a Y pool with a more enlightened policy, can you send word as to how you got your aquatic staff to override the (misguided) national YMCA policy about this?
Signed--
Slowly desiccating in Sewickley, Pa
I swim in a non-Y, community center pool not affiliated with any national organization. The guards are Red-Cross trained.
They close the pool and hot-tub in lightning storms.
What cracks me up is they don't close any of the various locker room showers. They also do not close the sauna room which is situated on the pool deck, and wired into the pool's circuits. :badday:
I swim in a non-Y, community center pool not affiliated with any national organization. The guards are Red-Cross trained.
They close the pool and hot-tub in lightning storms.
What cracks me up is they don't close any of the various locker room showers. They also do not close the sauna room which is situated on the pool deck, and wired into the pool's circuits. :badday:
