Pool rules when thunder

Anonymous
So we’ve been going to our pool in moco for 5 years. If the guards hear thunder they blow the whistle and wait 30 mins til we can get back in.
Today the pool manager said we had to be off the pool deck completely. In the building or in our cars.
Apparently part of the insurance states this is what’s supposed to happen and we just haven’t been doing it.
What does your pool do?
This was for distant thunder, no lightning, no actual storm.
Anonymous
Our pool is the same. I never asked but I guess it makes sense it’s for insurance reasons. You don’t really want to be standing in a wet puddle in a thunderstorm anyway…
Anonymous
off the deck completely, has been that forever at our pool
Anonymous
You have to leave the gated pool area and go to the parking lot.
Anonymous
Thunder we can be on the grass but not deck. Light ing pool grounds clear out completely
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:off the deck completely, has been that forever at our pool


+1 Into the clubhouse or leave for the nearly twenty years we’ve been members. Moco.
Anonymous
Moco lifer.

Off the deck completely. But I noticed some lifeguards don’t enforce that rule.
Anonymous

IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER, LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE AT ANY TIME.

And a bolt of lightning can hit you if you're on the deck. You're exposed.

Anonymous
We have to go to the lot.

Why are you questioning the pool manager, OP?
Anonymous
NoVA, we have to leave the pool and go to cars.
Anonymous
We've been at our pool since 2009. Like others, we have to clear the deck at the sound of thunder. They reopen 30 minutes after the last sound of thunder.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Moco lifer.

Off the deck completely. But I noticed some lifeguards don’t enforce that rule.


We sit in the stifling hot clubhouse, and the guards lounge around a table under a ledge on the cool deck during storms.
Anonymous
We need to leave immediately. I think we aren’t even supposed to sit in our cars on property, but I can’t remember since I usually just go home.
Anonymous
Head to your car for 30 minutes, Montgomery County.

Want to hear about the hot, humid night at a B meet where I turned the car on for A/C, and ran out of gas?
Anonymous
Must be off the pool deck completely.
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