Pump Water Off Cover - Feeling Stupid

[Poconos]

Just my opinion. If you get freezing temps, rain, ice, snow, there is no way I see that your cover, and maybe some water (ice) bags, will not be in the pool comes Spring. You can't pump ice and you can't walk out and shovel snow. I hate all these nasty words. See below. Personally, I gave up on my Loop-Lock cover. Would be frozen in a solid block of ice by late Winter. I don't cover now. Only two reasons to cover...safety and debris which are probably a lot of leaves. As for safety, once it freezes, you can walk on frozen water.
As I said..my opinion and on my 9th or 10th, depending on how you count, coming up. I stopped covering about 3 years ago. I hate W*****, I**, F*******, C***. All those naughty words.
Al

[markphin]

I try to keep most water off my cover but don't obsess over it. after a good rain, I'll throw the pump in. You want to keep the water level well below the coping though (iff you have coping). You don't want the water to freeze expand and possibly pop off some coping.