Colombo, March 30 -- For Lourdes Dilariarte of Pilar, Sorsogon Province of Bicol region, typhoon (Kammuri) Tisoy was yet another disaster bent on testing her resilience.
"This is the first time I ever experienced a storm like this," says the 70-year-old. "The wind lasted for so long, and it rained the entire night." Pointing to her thighs, she adds, "the flood was up to here." Her village still shows the extent of destruction.
In early December 2019, Typhoon Kammuri, locally known as 'Tisoy' made landfall in Sorsogon in the Philippines. Along its path, 65,000 houses were destroyed, hundreds of thousands of families were left in need of help and without power for days.
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