As I posted... my chlorine reading was 15ppm last night
No CC ever

I checked this morning and it is still 15 ppm!

So maybe I have over reacted but this stuff sure looks funky. It is like a red dust, just like the photos at the beginning of the this thread.

It dissipates into a cloud when brushed. There is just a little bit of it this morning.

We have lost CYA via dumping excess water due to heavy rains and backflushing. We normally keep the CYA higher because we have full sun exposure ALL day and cannot keep chlorine. Keeping it higher has pretty much solved that problem. It may not work for everyone, but it works for our pool.
Thanks