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
While I was swimming (but maybe not) during the lightning storm at lunch today, I was musing on this subject again. I remember a regular meet I used to swim in FL in high school was at a large LC pool on an Air Force Base. As I mentioned, lightning in FL is common in the summer so we'd often have to stall the entire meet and wait out the 30 minutes, but there was no significantly sized building nearby. So we waited outside. . . on the pool deck. . . under the shade. . . in metal bleachers.
While I was swimming (but maybe not) during the lightning storm at lunch today, I was musing on this subject again. I remember a regular meet I used to swim in FL in high school was at a large LC pool on an Air Force Base. As I mentioned, lightning in FL is common in the summer so we'd often have to stall the entire meet and wait out the 30 minutes, but there was no significantly sized building nearby. So we waited outside. . . on the pool deck. . . under the shade. . . in metal bleachers.
