The four missing people, including two children, are still lost after rushing waters caused by torrential rains engulfed the vehicles in which they were travelling
Four people, including two children, are still missing after a catastrophic weekend rainfall in Nova Scotia that has destroyed dozens of roads and bridges and forced hundreds of people from their homes.
She knocked on the door of her 89-year-old neighbour, and holding the family’s two bunnies, Cocoa and Zeplin, in a cat carrier, Ms. Stuart pushed on the first exit she came across. The door wouldn’t budge – behind it was a wall of water. Mark Peachey, of the Nova Scotia Department of Public Works, said crews were at work to reopen roads as many remained impassable Sunday and at least 50 have been washed out.
The heavy rainstorm, which dumped between 200 and 250 millimetres along Nova Scotia’s South Shore, across the Halifax area and into central and western parts of Nova Scotia, followed an unusually dry, hot spring that set the stage for historic wildfires in the province.
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