Dear Diary. This morning I was woken up at 7 AM by an emergency alert on my phone. It sounded like a siren. Girlfriend's phone was the same. The alert said:

Risk of flooding due to river overflow. Avoid travel until 5 PM. Stay away from rivers.

The first thing I did was go check out the nearest river. I wanted to see what it looked like. And it was awesome. It was like the River Rapids ride at Alton Towers, with white choppy waters and a fast current. I stood on a bridge and watched as huge amounts of water passed underneath. It was still dark because it was only 8 AM and it's winter.

Then I realised: I had the opportunity to be the first person in Girona to film the river and make it into an Instagram reel. So I went around filming the river from various angles.

Then I went to the local indoor market to get out of the rain, and sat on a bench and edited the reel together on my phone in about twenty minutes. People were probably thinking, "Who's this strange guy sitting there alone and weirdly engaged with his phone at 8:30 in the morning?" I finished editing it and posted it to Instagram. And now it has 70,000 views, 2,000 likes, and 1,000 shares, so it just proves how important it is to be the first person to do something.

Anyway, schools were cancelled today, so the kids were at home today. Girlfriend doesn't have a job now, so she's always at home anyway. After lunch, I asked the kids if they wanted to go out and see the river. Girlfriend said it would be dangerous, but I said it would be fine. If the river started flooding, we could have easily outrun it, I reckoned. So we got to the river, and 3-year-old sat there in a pushchair looking shocked at how much water there was. We walked up to the cathedral, and everything was closed. I tried to get food for 8-year-old at the local Spar, but it was closed.

Anyway, that was my day.