In Quezon City, 63-year-old Judy feeds her 65-year-old husband Apollo inside a bright orange tent after they evacuated ahead of Super Typhoon Fung-wong. Their creekside home had been flooded during heavy October rains, prompting them to move when authorities warned of the approaching storm. Fung-wong hit the northeast with sustained winds up to 185 kph (115 mph) and gusts to 230 kph (143 mph), forcing over a million people to flee. The image underscores enduring care and human resilience amid disaster.
Tenderness Amid Chaos: Couple Evacuates as Super Typhoon Fung-wong Strikes the Philippines
In Quezon City, 63-year-old Judy feeds her 65-year-old husband Apollo inside a bright orange tent after they evacuated ahead of Super Typhoon Fung-wong. Their creekside home had been flooded during heavy October rains, prompting them to move when authorities warned of the approaching storm. Fung-wong hit the northeast with sustained winds up to 185 kph (115 mph) and gusts to 230 kph (143 mph), forcing over a million people to flee. The image underscores enduring care and human resilience amid disaster.
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Tenderness Amid Chaos in a Quezon City Evacuation Shelter
Judy Bertuso, 63, leans forward inside a bright orange tent pitched on the floor of a basketball court in Quezon City, carefully spooning porridge into the mouth of her husband, Apollo, 65. Apollo, recovering from a stroke, sits in a wheelchair; his thin frame is visible through the tent's translucent plastic walls while Judy, wearing a wrinkled T-shirt and shorts, steadies a bowl beneath the spoon as she feeds him.
She looks tired but moves with a calm, deliberate tenderness born of decades of caring for one another. The couple had evacuated a day earlier from their creekside home after heavy rains in October had already flooded the house. When radio and television warnings urged residents to seek higher ground ahead of the approaching storm, they did not wait.
Super Typhoon Fung-wong — the most powerful storm to threaten the Philippines so far this year — struck the country's northeast with sustained winds up to 185 kilometers per hour (115 mph) and gusts up to 230 kph (143 mph). The storm forced more than a million people, including families like the Bertusos, to leave their homes and shelter in gyms, schools, and evacuation centers.
Inside the basketball court dozens of families occupy rows of bright tents. The wind howls outside while a low murmur of conversation drifts from tent to tent, occasionally broken by the loud play and chatter of children. Against that backdrop of uncertainty and noise, small acts of care stand out: Judy steadies the spoon again, her hand trembling slightly as she feeds Apollo, a quiet reminder that compassion endures even when the weather rages.
Photo caption: Judy feeds her husband Apollo inside an evacuation tent at a Quezon City basketball court after they fled their flooded home ahead of Super Typhoon Fung-wong.
Reporting note: All details are based on accounts and official warnings issued as the storm made landfall.