i've read that too..given my water gets drained down about 2.5 ft against a 4ft shallow end, don't think i would ever run into the situation where my pool gets that full..unless the issue is more so getting so much water that the net doesn't sit properly on the water (need to pull it out further to take up some slack) we get pretty heavy snow on and off from january to march, but never that much. now, if i was still living in sask..that would be 3 months of solid snow..then again, i'd never have a pool in sask where it got to -85C with the wind chill the morning i flew to calgary for my job interview..that was great motivation to get the hell out of dodge!