Why our heads are about to explode....

[ewkearns]

My wife and I are walking around with pounding headaches.... and I just got graphic evidence as to why......

This morning, I looked into the skimmer and there didn't appear to be any water moving. I had the immediate "Oh, no, the pump", thought, then noticed the skimmer sock had turned an off-yellow color. I had to turn the pump off to remove the basket and found a 1/32-1/16 layer of pollen that had built up over a period of 24 hours. There was clearly a thick yellow "oil slick" on the pool yesterday, but I had no idea.... even though we have been vacuuming pollen sediment for a week or more.

I think this is the worst pollen season, ever....

 

[cowboycasey]

Here in OK it is the worst I have ever seen, Just had to get a Z pack for the first time ever because I could hardly breath... Its so bad my allergy medicine won't even work, I am having to take the old standby Benadryl... Just crazy this early in the season...

 

[kimkats]

I walked out and just THOUGHT I had a red car...............it is YELLOW! So thick I had to spray the windshield to help clear it!

Kim

 

[woodyp]

I have a yellow cat for sale. Washed----she's normally jet black!

 

[Marcion333]

as billy crystal would say, "i hate it when this happens!"

 

[Richard320]

What a misleading title. I just assumed the neighbors were playing their Slim Whitman album too loud.

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[tlevy]

Climate change?


68,000litre, IG vinyl, LorentzPS 600 Solar Pump & 1/2 HP Tristar, Sandfilter, Aquarite T-15 SWG

 

[JayBauman]

What's the TFP party-line on this.....do we blame all the extra pollen on global warming? Is this a sign of the apacolypse? Or is it all Obama's fault?

 

[smforte]

Blaming Obama sounds good but I think it's from a mild winter. Water temp still 58 ish so I'm debating weather to suffer the pollen and take the cover off.

 

[ewkearns]

What a misleading title. I just assumed the neighbors were playing their Slim Whitman album too loud.

:lol:

 

[Griswald]

Its Bush's fault.

Actually, I though last year was worse.

Strange winter here in NC for sure.

 

[ewkearns]

Blaming Obama sounds good but I think it's from a mild winter. Water temp still 58 ish so I'm debating weather to suffer the pollen and take the cover off.

I'm going with global warming. We had nearly no winter..... some plants actually bloomed all winter; I've never seen that before. Virtually everything was budding out at the end of January. We've had one day below freezing since December 1 and I was never really able to close the pool, since the water temperature has only been below 60 degrees 17 days in the same period. In past years, frosts and snow wouldn't have been unusual, through the first week, or so, in April.

High today of 78 and pool temp is 74-75 degrees.

Yellow haze back on surface of pool.... I'm dumping the skimmer sock twice today....

 

[gwegan]

Ok Ok Richard I'll turn down the Slim Whitman but my daughters into Pentatonx so I have no control over that.

 

[blbncsu]

I do enjoy the nice winter we've had here in NC.

While I usually wait for the yellow snow season to end before opening up our pool; this year I"ll be doing it early probably next week, fire up the heat-pump, and let my allergies suffer through it for a bit.

 

[Lou.]

We just a yellow ring on pool tiles. I had to hand scrub it off. My fam n neighbors are breathing n sneezing n coughing for the first time from allergies. I blame GMOS.

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