"Trixy Elle still weeps when she remembers how she and her family fought for their lives as Typhoon Rai tore across the Philippines days before Christmas four years ago. In a matter of hours, intense rain and storm surges swallowed their home on Batasan Island in Tubigon, Bohol province. Elle, her elderly parents, brother, husband and two young children linked hands as they swam against flood waters in the dead of the night, praying to survive."
"With 66 other typhoon survivors from island communities in the Philippines, she is suing the fossil fuel company Shell in the UK courts, demanding financial compensation for the losses and damage they experienced under Odette. It is an unprecedented lawsuit in the UK and globally, as the first civil claim to directly link polluting companies to deaths and personal injuries that have already happened in the global south."
Trixy Elle and her family survived Typhoon Rai by swimming through floodwaters after storm surges swallowed their home on Batasan Island, Tubigon, Bohol province. The family endured days surviving on dead chickens and pigs, lost all clothing and possessions, and suffered deep emotional trauma. Rai, known locally as Super Typhoon Odette, killed more than 400 people, displaced nearly 3.2 million, and destroyed over one million homes, severely impacting communities in Visayas and Mindanao and disrupting health services amid a Covid-19 surge. Elle and 66 other island survivors have filed a civil claim in UK courts against Shell seeking financial compensation and alleging a direct link between fossil fuel pollution and the harms experienced.
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