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
Saw this today on Learn From My Fail (#LFMF). I'm assuming the poster is telling the truth:
When swimming in a lake, do not ignore those thunder clouds in the distance. Lightning can strike miles away from the cloud that originated it. And even if it hits the nearby rocks and not the lake itself, it still feels like all your bones have been broken. #LFMF
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Saw this today on Learn From My Fail (#LFMF). I'm assuming the poster is telling the truth:
When swimming in a lake, do not ignore those thunder clouds in the distance. Lightning can strike miles away from the cloud that originated it. And even if it hits the nearby rocks and not the lake itself, it still feels like all your bones have been broken. #LFMF
Submitted by: Rach via Submit Page
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