Authorities are still trying to locate four people, including two children, who went missing in Nova Scotia over the weekend after heavy rains. Some tourists in Quebec have seen the floods caused by Mother Nature for themselves.
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The search field includes “flooded bodies of water”. There’s really a lot of rubble. There could be shattered glass and other vehicles,” Guillaume Tremblay, corporal and public information officer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Nova Scotia, told the Journal.
A van carrying five people, believed to be from the same family, went into hiding on Saturday in the West Hants area, about forty miles from Halifax. If three passengers got away scot-free, two children have since gone missing.
A similar situation involved a car with four occupants, still in West Hants. This time a youth and an adult disappeared from sight.
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At the time of publication, the RCMP had not provided any further information on the victims, who were still missing as of Sunday afternoon.
A van has been found that may be linked to the first incident. In addition to police forces, the coast guard and fire brigade are also deployed.
“[Des] With the help of civilian companies, industrial pumping stations are being mobilized to lower the water level in the search area,” the RCMP said in a press release.
Heavy rains across Nova Scotia prompted widespread evacuations and emergency services over the weekend, including in Bedford and the Sackville area. Courtesy of Halifax Search and Rescue
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Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston said during a news briefing Saturday that the province had about 250mm of rain in less than 24 hours, the equivalent of three months of rainfall.
Accompanied by her spouse and their two children, aged 12 and 15, Véronique Marcoux was at the Halifax Citadel, a historic site, on Friday when the skies were unleashed.
Véronique Marcoux, her two sons, Dylan and Félix-Ethan, and her husband, Pierre Leclerc, donned raincoats to protect themselves from the rain in Nova Scotia. Photo courtesy of Véronique Marcoux
“There was really a lot of water, it was like a little lake inside the citadel, with very, very violent storms,” says the Quebec resident. There was […] good thunderbolts. It hit hard.”
Impressive “water holes” have also formed on the road. “Visibility was almost zero,” summarizes Ms. Marcoux.
Completely destroyed
Like Véronique Marcoux’s family, Nathalie Grondin and her spouse have adapted their schedules to the whims of Mother Nature.
“The worst areas seem to be Halifax and Lunenberg, and that’s where we wanted to go, so we decided not to go there,” says Ms. Grondin.
Nathalie Grondin was in the village of Belle-Côte, Nova Scotia on Saturday. She took this picture before a flood. Photo courtesy of Nathalie Grondin
“We could advise you to be well informed about the planned routes and the road sections closed for inspection [le trajet] accordingly,” she adds.
Tim Houston also said at a news conference on Sunday that in addition to the many roads that were washed away, 25 bridges were also affected, six of which were “completely destroyed”.
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