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This was the argument ME used in the previous threadhttp://lists.nau.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9904&L=phys-l&P=R17822
to stay away from
the wiring and plumbing. His argument is good enuff
for me to stay away
(out).
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What I mean about attracting lightning is that once
the lightning
entered the bldg. it would preferentially sink in
the pool. Don't know
about the conductivity of concrete; even if not
much less than the
floor the pool area is very large, so ....
bc, informed
Hugh Haskell wrote:
I believe I read somewhere (but can't rememberwhere now) that the
problem with swimming pools, indoor and outdoor,is that a lightning
strike near a pool can cause rather largetransient currents that, if
someone is in a pool when the current surgesthrough it, can be
fatal. I have no further information to supportthat statement, but
in the absence of hard data, I am not willing touse myself as an
experimental subject for the test. Hence, when thewhistle blows, I
dutifully get out of the pool and wait until I amauthorized to go
back in. It may be an unnecessary precaution but Iam willing to give
them the benefit of the doubt for now.use a Mac, they
Hugh
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