One year on, typhoon victims are still displaced and distraught

Makeshift walkway: A resident walking across rail tracks covered in sand serving also as a walkway in Guinobatan, Albay province. Hundreds of families are still waiting for new homes after Typhoon Goni pounded the region last November. — AFP

A YEAR after a powerful storm sent an avalanche of volcanic rock and sand crashing down, burying her house, Philippine food vendor Florivic Baldoza still lives in an evacuation centre.

As global warming brings increasingly extreme weather, she now fears “nowhere is safe”.