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 am wondering if our beloved directors and board members and various other high level USMS functionaries (and I use functionary here in the most complimentary possible sense, simply because I know of no synonym) might intercede on the behalf of side-lined masters and fitness swimmers everywhere, whose hope to get a decent workout in an indoor pool is routinely being stymied by superstition and faulty pseudo science.
Perhaps a White Paper from USMS could be something that would help promote the organization's mission, i.e., promoting health and fitness through swimming.
I say this now at 4:49 on a sultry late afternoon in the Pittsburgh area, the dew point 69 degrees F, the storm clouds already on the Ohio-PA state line, and the prospects for our swimming practice at 6:30 becoming progressively dimmer by the minute...
Help, promoters of swimming!
Rob Butcher, would you call the director of the Sewickley Valley Family YMCA and talk some sense into him?
I am wondering if our beloved directors and board members and various other high level USMS functionaries (and I use functionary here in the most complimentary possible sense, simply because I know of no synonym) might intercede on the behalf of side-lined masters and fitness swimmers everywhere, whose hope to get a decent workout in an indoor pool is routinely being stymied by superstition and faulty pseudo science.
Perhaps a White Paper from USMS could be something that would help promote the organization's mission, i.e., promoting health and fitness through swimming.
I say this now at 4:49 on a sultry late afternoon in the Pittsburgh area, the dew point 69 degrees F, the storm clouds already on the Ohio-PA state line, and the prospects for our swimming practice at 6:30 becoming progressively dimmer by the minute...
Help, promoters of swimming!
Rob Butcher, would you call the director of the Sewickley Valley Family YMCA and talk some sense into him?
