My wife works out at our local YMCA 3-4 times a week. Why do they close the "Indoor" pool when it's storming outside? I've never head of such a thing. No one at the facility can give her a definitive answer. They never closed the pool at my high school when it was raining outside.
You are not safe in an indoor pool during a lightning storm: http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_pls/indoor_pools.html
Fear of the village people! Can't trust them fellers if there's a lights-out. [video=youtube;CS9OO0S5w2k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k&playnext=1&list=PL42B42B269F691BDA[/video]
I KNEW they were going to make an appearance in this thread! Always stay away from all plumbing during a thunderstorm. Also stay away from windows and doors, and don't touch metal parts while in your car. (which is really easy in modern plastic interiors! It would be harder in the older cars)
That makes sence. T-storms are notorious for high winds and large glass is never safe to be around in winds.
Huh, I've never even thought about that. I guess because for one, we don't have lightening storms in Seattle, and two, I probably haven't swam indoors in almost 15 years. That's funny that the people who have to close the place down don't even know why though.
There doesn't even have to be thunder and lightning outside.....just rain. Yeah the answer always given is "Well, it's raining out." Never ever heard of that nonsense. Hell even Joker's link states there are no databases that show anyone ever being affected by this.
If they do it like Lifetime does, it's if there's a lightning strike within 15 miles. Also a large part of what happens in a pool has to do with insurance.
yea pools around here close when its lightning. and of course its not wise to shower or wash dishes while its storming.. i do it anyways, i dont care.
I used to follow torx's example, till the day I got lightly zapped by the faucet during a lightning strike nearby. I don't do that anymore.
Electricity takes the path of least resistance, and that path really likes the plumbing fixtures. It is possible to get "zapped" by an electric shock that way, and I'm not the only one to whom this has happened, so I don't feel all alone.
Tac the data on the link I posted is not categorized very well. I would bet someone has died in an indoor lightning strike. I have been shocked in an indoor pool from a faulty pump that was 30 ft away from the pool. I didn't even know I was being shocked. I just kept tasting metal in my mouth and we realized it later we were being shocked.
Plain water has quite a resistance factor unless you put in an electrolitic additive. I'm not sure of the chlorine but if salts are added it would conduct better. That pump was probably 30 amps at 220 volts unless it was three phase. Had you of been bathing in lye water you'd have been killed.
Not much will change in this country until people are just plain affraid to leave their homes out of fear of getting sued.
