Al Jazeera/Marga OrtigasThe nightmare hadn’t changed much in a month.
The main roads had been cleared as much as they could be, but everything else was still drenched in mud, dusted in debris, and dotted by mangled logs.
Everywhere you looked people were shovelling dislocated earth and salvaging what they could from the wreckage around them.
The above photo is of Iligan city after flash floods triggered by a tropical storm in December cascaded down denuded mountains and swelled silted rivers.
Thousands of homes were swept away in the middle of the night - and countless lives were destroyed.
Al Jazeera/Marga Ortigas 
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