All four people were reported missing Saturday in separate incidents in West Hants — a largely rural municipality northwest of Halifax.
Police were being assisted by a team from the Department of Natural Resources and ground search and rescue teams from West Hants, Colchester and Valley, he said.Police did not release any details about the four missing people.
Zebian also confirmed that a municipal evacuation order that had been issued for the area was lifted early Sunday. People were allowed to return to their homes and businesses, he said. Mounce’s family is taking turns preparing meals and is working on forging a path for a tractor to access the main highway. He built his home on the bank of the Meander River, just down the hill from the family homestead where he grew up.
Just down the road from a popular provincial campground is Shirley’s Pizza, where owner Bobby Maskine said he walked in on Saturday morning and initially thought the roof on the nearly 200-year-old building had collapsed. Instead, he discovered the basement was full of about four metres of murky, brown floodwater.“I’m trying to keep myself calm because everyone is going through it,” he said. “There’s disaster everywhere, but this is the worst time of year for this to happen, for sure.
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