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Originally Posted by pilotbob
You drain the pool to winterize it? I've never heard of that? I just thought you plugged the main drain, shocked it, put a pool cover on it, and drained out the pipes. That's what they do at my mom's house and she is in New England so it gets very cold there in the winter.
Here in Florida I keep the pool open and running year round. With the solar heater we can use it about 9-10 months of the year. 
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I don't know if it's the same for the people on the gulf side, but in Southeast Florida, if you drain your pool, the whole thing will pop up out of the ground!
Our pool builders told us that it was weight of the water in the pool that kept it from coming up out of the ground because of the water under the pool. South Florida is basically a shale shelf over water.
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
hm... i hope i'm wrong, but i seem to remember that story ends very badly, doesn't it ? maybe pshrynk should enact something a little less epic and dangerous.
yeah baby !! elvis costello !! i think i'll listen to that myself now. thanks florence ! as for rain dogs, i cannot BELIEVE you don't have that album !! it's only one of his best !!! well, if you can't wait to buy it, luckily there's deezer, you can listen to it there.
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At the Washington National Zoo, they have a series of thick cables that run about 35 feet off the ground (called the
O Line) that the orangutans can swing across. The cables even run overtop a couple of the walking paths. The first time I saw one of the orangutans swinging across it, it kind of freaked me out!
I kept asking my husband why the apes just didn't jump down and make a run for it.
