Perhaps because it's Father's Day, things are looking up for me...Got POUNDED with rain last nite (sure you saw the same Marie), and thought i'd wake to a nitemare...Fortunately the CL held it's own over-nite...The same 5ppm yesterday was the same 5ppm this AM...Sun is on the pool now, so I'll see how much I lose through the course of the day...Water never "tinted" green after the Clorine addition, so maybe I'll be OK.....Rain DID raise the PH to 7.8 though...

as for the specs:
18 ft round/ sand/ vinyl/ 7600 gallons
FC: 5
CC: 0
TC: 5
PH: 7.8 (acid added minutes ago)
ALK: 90-95
CYA: 30-35
CAL; 130

taking your cue, It's just ONE THING at a time for me !!....have not had the need to use additional metal out as the water appears to "clean-up" on its own after clorine additions...... However. my days of 'hard" shocking may be at an end...anytime more than 2 qt. of bleach is added, the water tints green....(In the past, I never thought twice about dumping 2 gallons at a time to "clear" things up).

So far, so good.....Thanks for asking....