What should we do for blown in pool cover?

[MaureenCab]

Hello! Back after a long hiatus where I just referred to all the notes I had printed out from your forum during the first few years of pool ownership. Anyway, followed closing instructions and actually had the cover with waterbags staying on well for a few weeks. Thought we were all done for the season!

With the tornado-inspired storms from a few weeks back, our cover and many of the bags blew into the pool. Sad to see after our hard work closing, but keeping it in perspective compared to the folks further south in Illinois lost entire homes and pools!


Wondering if we should (a) just leave it as is, with many leaves that had already started decomposing (causing brown water) and the cover hanging halfway in being held down by some waterbags that also blew in to pool

OR (b) try to remove cover from the pool water, salvage whatever bags we can get out, use a leaf-bag to get out majority of leaves, add lots of bleach (or something else) to clear up the chemistry some, and maybe trying to put the cover back on? I was thinking about posting a picture, but cant seem to find the newbie instructions now on how to do that.

OR (c) some combination of the two -- try to get out the cover and bags and just leave pool open for rest of the winter? Not sure what that will mean workwise in the spring -- will it be any more work than what we would have to do now, or about the same but in warmer weather? (We've got the beginnings of an "ice cover" forming on the pool water as I type.)

Thanks!

[PoolDoc]

It's up to you.

But in general, it's easier to remove a massive mess when the pools 'inactive' biologically, than when it's filled with slime, bugs, frogs and is well on it's way to becoming a "Natural" pool, AKA a pond.