The typhoon that hit my island didn’t make the news. This is what the climate crisis looks like

Palau was hit by Typhoon Surigae last week, but even the typhoons that don't claim lives or flatten cities are devastating for those who live through them

My adopted home country of Palau, in the northern Pacific, was hit by a typhoon last week. Thankfully no one died here, though it did lead to deaths in the Philippines.

The impact on Palau of Typhoon Surigae didn't make headlines overseas and this might be the first you will have heard of it. Compared to other natural disasters and other cyclones or typhoons in the Pacific, it was a relatively good" one. But it left me shaken, exhausted and our community rattled.