Starting over after power outage-- No Chlorine or CYA

[Watermom]

Not that it will help you now, but just reference in case you are ever in this situation again.

I, too, lost power on June 29 and it did not come back on until the evening of July 6. My solar cover blew off the pool and there were branches, twigs, leaves ,dirt all in the pool. I cleaned out as much debris as I could by hand but of course, could not get the dirt and bits of leaves out without a working pump as you noted above. However, we swam every day. We had to to stay cool as the daytime temps were over 100 and the temp inside my house was in the 90s. The bottom of the pool was dirty but the water was clean and clear. Every evening before I got out of the pool, I slowly walked all over the pool drizzling in a jug of bleach and then using arms and body to create lots of splashing and water movement to get the bleach mixed in. I did this each of the night while we had no power. In this way, I was able to keep the pool from turning into a green slime pit and in 100+ degree weather like we have been having, it wouldn't take long for that to happen!

Sorry you are dealing with this. If it ever happens again, you will know better what to do.

[Andyhl2]

It looks like I am on the right track. After getting no or very low chlorine readings in the morning for the past several days, I finally had a 6.5 fc reading this morning. Watermom, I hope it doesn't happen again, but if it does, I will definitely be following your technique. I thought about doing it, and in retrospect I should have, but I guess each day we kept thinking that this would be the day that power comes back. Thanks for the advice.