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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It continued to thunder and lightning when the rain stopped until at least 10 pm in the Rutherford / Fairfax area. Meet could not have been resumed.

Rutherford did an amazing job hosting and their volunteers were awesome!! Thank you![/quote]

That's not true.  The radar showed it was one cell of weather that would come through, which is what occurred, and it was sunny skies and rainbows by 8:00 in that area. Other pools nearby to Rutherford reopened to patrons between 8:00-8:15.  Team Reps were on pool grounds cleaning up team areas with no thunder or lightning by 8:00.  The NVSL called it way too early - the meet should have resumed.[/quote]

I think the issue is that there are no lights at Rutherford. So by the time they got things up and running again it would have been too dark to continue the meet.

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NVSL does not have the luxury.  They are desperate to have pools host them. No one wants to do it.
That may be, but this post commented that it was due to continued thunder and lightning, which is not true.

I've also heard the lights may have been the problem, which is even more disappointing. How can the NVSL host ASR at a pool that can't host if it gets too dark?  If that's the case, they basically made the decision before the meet started that any weather delay would end the meet since it wasn't scheduled to end until 8:00.  Doesn't give much room for a delay.

It seems logical that there should be 3 requirements for a pool to be accepted to be the host of ASR.  1) Enough nearby space for Team Areas and Spectators;  2) Enough nearby parking;  3) A fully functional pool that doesn't turn have to shut down at 8:30pm.[/quote][/quote]

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