Then comes the thunder a’rumbling, Then comes the lightning flaring, And then downpours the heavy rain. But the lightning is my torch, the thunder beats the cadence of my steps, And for my walking cane the rain…! – Traditional Ivatan poem

In Batanes, the northernmost islands of the Philippines, a small indigenous population routinely survives the most violent storms in the world. But in an era of unprecedented weather disturbances, can centuries-old methods of adaptation survive modernization and economic struggle?

posted on May 8, 2014, at 11:20 p.m.
Laurel Fantauzzo
BuzzFeed Contributor

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