According to the website Science Direct, an average of 20 typhoons, or 25 percent of typhoons worldwide, barrel their way into the Philippines every year. Out of the 20, five are considered disastrous, while an average of nine makes landfall.

A 72-year-old man who lived with the body of his late wife for 21 long years is keeping her cremated remains at his house and turning himself into a foundation volunteer to spend the rest of his life doing good for her.