Is it necessary to drain winter cover/

[poolbee]

Thanks. It is a tarp type cover with the water bags. I mentioned previously that it had begun to snow... Well, that isn't the half of it. Just got power back today after loosing it Thurs. evening. About 2 feet of the heaviest wet snow fell, breaking almost every tree in all, and I mean all, of Western NY. We have a beautiful Olmsted park here, Delaware Park, in the city of Buffalo. Almost every one of the hundreds of stately trees, most over 50-60 years old, are broken, felled, just plain destroyed. I have many trees in my yard. Almost every one is gone. A huge branch fell onto my fence and pool. Fortunately just 1 top rail of the fence is damaged. The pool cover did not rip. My kids are off from school the whole next week. There are just too many trees down and too many power lines down to get around safely. Over 400,000 without power and its not expected to have every one back online until next week. Luckily I'm on the same electric grid as a big supermarket so when they were brought online we were too. I have lots of pictures to post when I can get to my other computer. Buffalo-gotta love it!
BTW-almost all of the snow is melted; highs in the 60's later this week. It looks more like a tornado hit than a freak snow storm.