A fallen tree blocks the small road leading from Pasteral to the Susqueda dam. A landscape suspended in time. Luckily, some workers are already tightening it, just in time to arrive punctually at 11:00 AM in front of the magnificent double-curved intake. Unlike Sau, in 1967, a unique engineering feat in Spain was inaugurated: curved both horizontally and vertically. Xavier Jou, the Enel manager for the area, recounts it with palpable emotion. Along with Toni Morilla, we will visit the interior of the dam with about thirty subscribers of the ARA Premium Club who say they feel very "lucky".

On Thursday at noon, Dani Ramírez provided the weather report live from the Darnius-Boadella reservoir. Although the fog obscured the reservoir, the famous indicator needle that has accompanied us for over a year announced that it was at 50% capacity, specifically 344 cubic hectometres. Through a series of photographs, Ramírez showed us the evolution of the reservoir during the drought months, and in fact, the last image was from March 2, just eighteen days old. It was then at 18% capacity. "Three saving weeks from the drought," the presenter told us, and then gave us some context. He reminded us that since December 2023, we had had the famous internal basin counter on screen with the needle indicating the dramatic state of the reservoirs. And he summed up the last year: "Around the first week of March 2024, it was at 100 cubic hectometers, 14% of reserves. And today we have it at 344 cubic hectometers, and reserves are about to reach 50%." And then came the unexpected surprise. Ramírez, pointing to the internal basin counter, told us: "From now on, we will no longer show you any more, and really, well, we say goodbye." Ramírez gestured with his hand toward the lower corner of the screen, as if sweeping it away, and the needle disappeared from the image: "And don't let that counter, which has kept us waiting for so many months, practically years, ever come back."