What do you do when it rains and your pool fills to the coping?

[famousdavis]

In my part of Florida, we've had a lot of rain over the last few days. Even though my pool has overflow piping (that, I think, just goes underneath the concrete shell and into a rock bed), my pool is filled to the brim (coping).

What danger is there in having my pool filled up to the coping/deck level? I could backwash my DE filter to bring down the water level, but then I'm unnecessarily using DE since my filter is currently still clean, plus whenever I backwash, I know I'm just emptying my pool of the salt and other chemicals that keep my water balanced.

Can really bad things happen if one's pool fills to overflowing?

[BigDave]

Your skimmer won't work - not what I'd call really bad but there could be problems I don't know about.
Does your DE filer have a waste setting?

[kelemvor]

I send the kids in for cannonballs. They love it!

[moriskod]

I send the kids in for cannonballs. They love it!

That's a good idea!! I don't know what problem it might cause although if you have a place where the liner has pulled a bit loose and water could get in behind that might be an issue. I like to let mine fill up pretty full but not to the top of the liner.. I just send some water to waste as painful as that is to lose chemicals and the H2O. My skimmer works somewhat up to a 1/2 inch or so past the top of it but not as well of course. Last year in September we had an afternoon when we got 12 inches of rain in one day!! I had to pump water out of the pool twice that day. It was really sad to pump that much water out of the pool!!