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So I come home after a real crappy day of getting my ash kicked by contract managers, city agencies, workers and of course my partners.

Upon arrival home the wife prepares my vodka/sprite and I tell her that since we have time before dinner I'll water the plants around the house.

I do the side and work my way to the backyard. I have been very busy latley and I have not been in the yard since late last week. I get this powerful dead something or other smell.

In the past there have been animals that have crawlwed under my nieghbor's deck and died in the pool pump pit so I figure it must be coming from George's yard.

No....I see a thousand flies gathering at one spot on the deck. So I go and investigate.

Uhhhh!!!! WTF? NOooooo! There is a possum floating under the solar cover and it is a complete mess.

Foolishly I tried to pick it up with the skimmer, no good. I keep trying and try as I may my new friend decides to start to come aprt in chunks. Ewww! I ran away and vomited. I got an old tee shirt and sprayed it with interior car scent I got as a gift with an order and wrapped it around my breathing holes.

I finally get him, most of him up and into a black trash bag. I then get bleach and bleach the crap out of the deck, staining it lighter of course.

I treat the pool (biguanide) with shock, clarifier, enzyme stuff and oxidizer emptying whole bottles in to the pool. Vac the pool and skim some more. Wash everything down again and again. After 2 hours all is good at least much better.

The stench was incredible, it is still in my nose. I tried everthing I could think of to get it out. I took an incredible long hot shower and started to feel a little better. I had another cocktail, as I really did deserve it.

I went into the kitchen and asked what was for dinner, thinking to myself, damn I can't get that smell out of me!!. My wife had prepared shrimp scampi over angel hair pasta, ummm. The shrimp had thesame sour fishy smell as the carcass and surrounding area. I made a grilled cheese and called it a night.

I got up this morning and was out in the yard at 5 am skimming and bumping the filter. The pool is clearing up and I expect it to be clear in 24 hrs.

Any thoughts if I should do more to mitigate the after effects? The water does not smell.

Sheeesh!