Young climate activist Vhon Michael Tobes was a day away from beginning his journey to Brazil for the Cop30 summit when Typhoon Kalmaegi hit.
His home is in Samar, the most easterly of the islands that make up the Philippines.
“We are located right next to the Pacific Ocean so we are sort of like the entrance point for typhoons,” he said.
Kalmaegi burst through that entrance with brute force, the latest in a series of typhoons that have been characterised by increasing ferocity.
“My father woke me at 3am and already the water was coming into our house.
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