I believe I read somewhere (but can't remember where now) that the
problem with swimming pools, indoor and outdoor, is that a lightning
strike near a pool can cause rather large transient currents that, if
someone is in a pool when the current surges through it, can be
fatal. I have no further information to support that statement, but
in the absence of hard data, I am not willing to use myself as an
experimental subject for the test. Hence, when the whistle blows, I
dutifully get out of the pool and wait until I am authorized to go
back in. It may be an unnecessary precaution but I am willing to give
them the benefit of the doubt for now.
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