Pond or Pool?

Back before the broiling heat of summer was upon us, DH and I decided to open the pool. The pool is 70x6x4. Mostly. Roughly 33,000 gallons of water. That looked like this...

I'm scared, Daddy!
So we proceeded to add double the amount of Super Shock than recommended by the good folks at hth and run the pump for 24 hours. The result was thus... Still horrifying!
Let's throw more chlorine at that beast!Thanks, Honey!

And break out the scrub brushes and vacuum attachment.Hubby and brother scrubbing the scum.

This is four or five days after the initial shock. That would be both the shock of how gross the pool was and the actual chlorine shock.Me, vacuuming for the thousandth time!

By the sixth day I was beginning to think the pool was a lost cause this year. The water was still quite cloudy and you could only quasi sorta see the bottom in the shallow end. The deep end was still a murky abyss. I decided to go ahead and put in the ph balancing chemical at double the recommended amount and give it one last shock session.Almost there!

All together we scrubbed, shocked, vacuumed and flocked the pool for nine days to get it even remotely safe for human activity. But it sure was fun on Memorial Day!