He forgot to tell you that a "leaf rake" isn't a leaf rake!

DO NOT USE A GARDEN TOOL IN YOUR POOL!!!!!!!!!

A "leaf rake" is a special kind of skimmer with a butterfly-net bag and a squeegee edge. You can pull out TONS of stuff with it.

BTW, what is "Sanitizer"? What chemical did you use that they labled shock? (there is no such thing--"Shock" is a verb, not a noun--pool store try to confuse you....)
Are you aware that ALL you needed to add was bleach, lots of it, and that you could buy an AWFUL LOT of bleach for what they soaked you for all that junk?

I don't mean to be hard on you but I want to spit when some decent person like you gets "Pool Stored" into wasting far more money (and confusion ) than they need to.

You need chlorine. That's your sanitizer, your shock and your bleach, and you get it ALL from bleach. You DO need stabilizer--probably. That organic mass in your pool probably consumed the stabilizer--CYA from here on in. About the ONLY way to get CYA out of your pool is by replacing water--or the swamp method.

CYA will help your chlorine last longer, but it makes it less effective while it does it--so there's a balancing act to try to get CYA to between 30 and 50ppm.

You will need to keep your chlorine very, very high to clear your water. When we get a CYA level we can tell you how high. You will need to check it 3x a day and add bleach as needed to get it back to that level. You'll need some elbow grease to get that junk out of the pool, and you'll need to vacuum the muck to waste every day, and brush everyday too when the junk is gone.

You will need lots and lots of bleach and even more P.O.P.P--that's Pool Owner Patience & Persistence!