Yale Climate Connections
When the wood-and-tin foundations of my friend Maria Theresa Dizon’s home began to give way from the fury of Super Typhoon Sinlaku on April 14, she and her family were forced to retreat to the only shelter left standing: their car.
“I was pleading with someone, anything, anyone to please just make it stop,” Dizon told me over the phone. “I was just looking at the road, and everything was just falling down, and I was just afraid we would be closed in, and we were. It didn’t seem to end.”
When the storm finally passed many hours later, the only thing left standing in her house was their front door bearing a holy cross.
“Pretty symbolic,” she said.
