I came here to celebrate our first post-Sandy swim. After closing a dirty pool last year, I got it opened and cleared the swamp in April. I tried to start the solar early May and found the storm had damaged one of the panels. Got the solar installer out and he plugged a couple tubes and we are back. Some poorly timed weather and other commitments kept us out of the pool until yesterday.
But Yesterday! W00t! (I never say W00t!) After returning from our 90+ degree Cub Scout Camping trip, my son and I had a nice swim in our crystal clear 84 degree pool. Awesome!

Thanks PoolForum!

It's funny CarlD mentioned Locusts in his last post, we're presently suffering a plague of 17-year locusts (cidcadas actually). The husks and dead bugs are everywhere, the sky and trees and bushes are filled with the live ones, and the song is deafening - It sound like a bearing wipe in large equipment - coming from everywhere.
For my pool it means the skimmer basket is always full of cicadas - bad swimmers.

Now, what pestilence?