Rain...and lots of it

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May 30, 2016
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Belleville IL
I live in the St. Louis Metro area...Tuesday we received 8+ inches of rain in about a 6+ hour timeframe. Needless to say, I got up about 6:30 am yesterday to a pool overflowing from the hole in the skimmer lid, parts of my backyard with several inches of standing water and the corner of my street (about 3 houses away at the low spot) with about 8 inches of water stretching about a 100 feet. I proceed to wade out to my pool :) and start to waste water. Got it low enough that it stopped flowing out the lid before stopping to take my wife to work. I have a truck that didn't have a problem getting through the flooded road, her car would have never made it.

Got back home, turn the pump on and head inside as I saw no use standing there in the pouring rain and low and behold forgot about the pump running for about 20 minutes. Got out there in the nick of time and the water was just barely making it in the skimmer.

Needless to say, I am the only dumbass in the STL region filling his pool today via a hose! :)

We were forecast to get more rain over night and while we got some, it wasn't anywhere near the amount needed to refill said pool.
 
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To add some scope to the amount of rain. - The official stats are taken at Lambert Airport (I think), I am about a hour east of that location.
9.04" highest 24 hour rainfall on record
7.68" in 6 hours
25% of total yearly rainfall in 12 hours
7.31" normal amount in July and August

Our forecast was for 2" of rain quite a bit further north, but the storm had a mind of its own.

Good news is I got enough "pay for" water back in the pool so pump is back running.
 
We had no rain for about a month now. So anyone having it worse i can’t imagine. We do usually get a ton of rain. Im scared at how much we will get in the fall now. Flooding is crazy.

I had a similar issue and did a bone head move ha. The water evaporated so much due to lack of rain. So I put the hose on. Thinking an hour and I’ll put it up an inch. After 1hr 15 mins it was over flowing out of the skimmer. Then I went to back wash since I was going to anyway. I rushed to put the backwash hose on and didn’t untwist it. Started the backwash the kinks popped the hose right by the pool lol. I rushed to move it and get the water away. Made a mess out of one of the mulch garden beds lol. Got the water back to level but now need a new backwash hose. Learned a new lesson lol.
 
You guys got hammered down there. We had some rain a few weeks ago- 5 inches in an evening and then more rain all night. Had to drain down to a reasonable level. Uh oh- lost a ton of my CYA I had just gotten up to 30. The next day it was 100 degrees. Hello algae! Check your stabilizer and your ph levels. All that rain messed with my ph briefly.
 
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