Over a month after Typhoon “Pablo” drowned the provinces of Compostela Valley and Davao del Norte in a deadly avalanche of stones and rocks (these days, they call the town of New Bataan as New Bato-an), the highway that whisks you up the northern reaches of the Davao Region introduces you to a severely windswept landscape: huts tumbling into heaps of crushed hopes and lives; roofs of community gyms twisting in the air as one-of-a-kind images of trauma; a mall crunched up into some kind of post-nuclear holocaust; and formerly picturesque beach resorts and spring-water pools nowhere to be found anymore, buried in hillocks of pebbly rubble.