Pool pee’ers impacted the most.
This will have a major impact on many suburban homes with pools. It can take 2-4 gallons a week with casual maintenance to keep a pool from becoming an algae-fest. I’ve been seeing the scarcity of available chlorine get worse. Very worrisome for those who have full size private pools.
My pool guy gave me a heads up. I got enough for the season last week.
The BIG buckets were already sold out.
I use a salt water generator. Plenty of pure salt at the hardware store. It doesn’t get consumed, so I’m good until fall pool closing.
Lets see. Gas shortages - check
Chicken shortages - check
chlorine shortages - check
And those are just the ones I read this morning.
Happy summer and summer vacations amerika.
Wasn’t too long ago we had a pipeline. And people worked. You know, stuff like that.
Keep a solar cover on your pool at all times when not being used. I did it religiously last year and hardly used any chlorine at all and kept the water bath water warm in Mass.
There once was a time I could go to LL Bean or Lands End online, have several choices of fabric, any color I wanted and every size was in stock. But that was 10 or 15 years ago. Before the Internet going back to the 70's, I would buy from their paper catalogs. About the only change I have made over the years has been in the fabric, opting for no-iron over 100% cotton. I don't want business dress shirts, nor to pay excessively. Beyond Bean and Lands End, I have checked Brooks Brothers, J. Crew, Jos. A Bank, Duluth Trading, Orvis and several other places. I have even gone as far as looking on Amazon. Amazon has their own brand now and it appears from the reviews that they are junk - thin fabric and people complain that they are semi-transparent. I want a shirt that is going to hold up for 10, 15 years or until I die.
Maybe I am picky, but I didn't have this issue in the past. I don't want some untrusted brand and I don't want to go to a bespoke tailor to buy a casual button down that fits.
This country is looking more and more like the former Soviet Union. Back at the height of the food and paper product shortages, I explained to my daughter how the grocery store shelves compared to the old soviet days. I did that while standing in line for the meat counter, and of course loud enough for other shoppers wearing useless face diapers to hear.
Bottle of bleach
When I was growing up, my father had a pool in his back yard. He did not use chlorine. He used atrazine for algae control and oxidation of water in sunlight. Didn’t burn eyes and had no effect in a pool to harm. Factually, a 150-pound adult could drink more than 11,000 gallons of water a day every day for 70 years at proper controlled levels and you still would not reach a level of exposure shown to have any effect in laboratory studies. So much for the chlorine shortage scare.
wy69
Shortage, not scarcity.
What a coinkydink.
I find it hard to believe that shortages of simple commodities won’t sort themselves out pretty quickly. Forecasting demand is difficult in the best of times, but coming out of a pandemic, with growth exploding thanks to low interest rates and huge government deficits, it’s really hard for goods providers to know how much lumber to cut, etc. But we have plenty of trees, and plenty of sawmills. This will all shake out fine.
Driving chlorine prices even higher
Who would have guessed $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
finally filled in my in-ground pool last year, after sitting unused for a couple of years before that - way too much work and expense and maintenance for the little it actually got used now that the kids are mostly grown.
Don’t miss it one bit personally and given the chance would much rather swim in the ocean.
2 happiest days in a pool owners life - they day that have it installed, and the day it gets filled back in.
Make your own chlorine?
How hard could it be?
Wear a mask.