HALIFAX — RCMP in Nova Scotia said Monday they had found the body of a missing man and what they believe are remains of a second person swept away in massive flooding that hit the province on the weekend.
Police said they recovered the body of a 52-year-old man from Windsor, N.S., in a search area northwest of Halifax, while the second person's remains were found on shore in a tidal area in the neighbouring county.
A series of thunderstorms that began on Friday and stretched into the following day dumped up to 250 millimetres of rain on several parts of the province, washing out roads and bridges and causing widespread damage. Provincial officials said 25 bridges had been affected, with 19 damaged and six destroyed. At least 50 roads sustained significant damage.
On Saturday evening, an RCMP dive team recovered an unoccupied pickup truck in more than two metres of water and said it was believed to be the vehicle the children were travelling in. Police said the children were with three other people who managed to escape. A man and a youth travelling in a second vehicle in the area were also reported missing.
“Our own worries about damaged driveways and such just dissipated and all we care about now is the kids and the other lost people .... For me personally, living here all these years, there’s never been anything as devastating as this.” While the floodwaters had largely receded by Sunday, they left behind a network of damaged and washed out roads and bridges in the province. In the Halifax suburb of Bedford, power was out for many businesses and the hum of generators filled the air as owners assessed the damage caused by the weekend floodwater. The water had almost entirely receded, leaving behind a film of red-brown dirt coating everything the water once touched.
The swollen river is just a few metres from the door of John Mills’s Quarterback Mobile. He said his business fared better than some, taking on just a few inches of water. Mills took advantage of the sunny afternoon, laying out pieces of carpet to prevent mould.
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