Angela Telupe watched her backyard flood as a king tide tightened its grip on the main island of Tuvalu.
Outside her home in northern Funafuti, her children swam in an area the family usually uses for picnics.
“On the second day the tide just kept coming up,” Ms Telupe said.
“It didn’t go down. It just kept coming up for three to four days.”
The February king tide flooded and damaged parts of the main road on the island, pushed rocks onto the…
