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Swimmers urge Shorewood schools to stop closing indoor pools for lightning; speakers and board cite lack of documented indoor lightning deaths
Summary
Several regular swimmers urged the Shorewood School District to stop closing indoor pools during lightning storms and to restore summer pool hours; commenters cited research saying indoor lightning deaths are undocumented and argued closures displace people from safer indoor spaces.
Multiple community members asked the Shorewood School District and village officials to rethink policies that require closing indoor pools during lightning storms and appealed for restored summer pool hours.
At the board meeting, public commenters described being told to leave indoor pools during electrical storms and expressed frustration about shortened summer hours. One resident, Clifford Tisser of North Newhall Street, and several regular swimmers said their experience and research led them to conclude that indoor pool lightning fatalities are effectively…
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