Thanks for all the replies. My pump and filter are under a deck, so I guess, it actually will be protected a little bit more as well from that. I think I am going to take the pump in and leave the filter out, ofcourse draining everything and stuff. Question I have now is many of you have commented on "anti freeze" run thru it...... What would I put anti freeze in? Pool store never said anything about anti freeze? just said drain, unhook all that stuff. Or is anti freeze only an inground thing? And I have an above ground? Thanks again for your replies. VERY HELPFUL!