Coronavirus Causes Spike in Pool Sales

Coronavirus Causes Spike in Pool Sales

With summer camps and swimming pools closed for the summer---- parents are having to find new ways to keep their kids entertained.

And some parents have looked to back yard swimming pools for the answer.

44news reporter jake thomas has the story.

An incredible response.

I mean, i think a lot of people are at home.

Theye looking for something to do.

Theye got the kids there, and so swimming pools have just been crazy.

That the best i can say it.

Ie been doing this 20 years, and ie never seen anything like it?

Mull-ca-hi says that all the swimming pools and hot tubs in their gallery have already sold out, but theye planning to get more soon but one lucky family in kentucky had the foresight to get a pool earlier in the year.?my wife kinda saw and read the tea leaves a couple months ago, and said, if we want to have fun this summer, then you need to get us an above ground pool for our backyard.

She knew that there was a possibility that, that the pools were going to be closed, and we needed to have something for our kids to do?

The mcbeaths were one of the lucky families to get a pool before the coronavirus induced rush google searches for above ground pools are up 300% compared to the last 5 years.

We have a seven year old, and it been a rough year for him.

Ya know, missing out on school, not being able to go to certain summer camps, or do activities that he used to doing, and this is an option for him to still have a summer and still have a good time?

And compared to last year stephen told says that theye seen a 100% increase in sales, and he thinks a lot of that has to do with people skipping out on their vacations??with the swimming pools, i think, ya know, for the cost of a really nice vacation, you can get a swimming pool, that maybe you don do the vacation this year, but now you have this swimming pool on top of all the vacations that will be coming later that will last you the next 20 years?

Mull-ca-hi says theye already booking into august for above ground pool instillations, so you may be waiting late into the summer until you can take a cool dip in your own pool.

In evansville, jake thomas 44 news.

A hot humid day here in evansville.

And there's a chance for storms in the forecast.

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