These pictures are from last night around 7PM, looks about the same today if not a little more clear. There is still a bunch of nast down there, way more than I was expecting. But - at least I can see what I'm doing now. And yes, that is snow/sleet/hail. We never froze last night, but we got about 3 inches. In May. Crazy weather in Nebraska!
FPM - it looks as if there was no freeze damage. The water level is holding as well as it did last year - I lose some to evaporation, or perhaps to a slow leak somewhere - but it's not dropping any faster than it did before so it looks like I closed properly last year. I'm really glad that it's still so cold, it's letting me a get a jump on the algae even though I'm not able to maintain a proper shock process yet.
Oh, my skimmer net just broke too, so it looks like my first trip to the supply store will include a 12.5% chlorine, a vacuum (mine broke last season), a new pole skimmer.
Cost/Chemicals to Date:
$160
2 visits from the pool people to get a bunch of leaves out (obviously not all, but they couldn't see, so...)
20 lbs cal-hypo
2 32oz bottles of REVIVE!
2 return "eyeballs" that I've since removed. Both of my returns are on the same side of the pool, so the eyeballs more direct jets were creating some dead spots that I didn't have before.
$8
This was spent last season - I still had 2 gallons of 12.5% laying around which were both added to the pool to help maintain SOME chlorine until I get out and pick up the rest for a proper shock process.
The REVIVE! helped, i think, but not enough to warrant using it again or recommending it. POP and BBB would have returned the same results, but I wanted to give it a try since the pool guys said they'd seen really good results with it.
Next steps:
1) Procure pole skimmer, vacuum, chlorine.
2) Skim as much of the nast out as possible, let settle, vacuum everything else to waste.
3) Continue with the Shock Process until everything is kosher again.
4) Read up on how to, and then reduce the CH.
5) May also reduce TA w/ the acid/aeration process, but we'll see on that one.