“It’s incredible to see the force of the water and the impact it’s had. “We have approximately 25 bridges impacted across the province, 19 have been damaged, investigations continue on that but six – six – of those bridges were just completely destroyed,” he said during a news conference Sunday. On Sunday, Houston told reporters authorities were working to repair closed roads and compromised infrastructure systems.
“We got three months’ worth of rain in less than 24 hours,” he said. I know the entire province joins me in praying for their safe return.”Īn estimated 250 millimeters of rain battered the province in one day, Houston said.
“I want them to know that everything that can be done is being done. “I cannot stop thinking about these families and these four individuals,” Houston told reporters. Houston told a news conference Saturday that three people traveling with the missing children had managed to escape their vehicle and two people had been rescued from the other car. Premier Tim Houston said on Twitter Sunday: “Thank you to Nova Scotia’s first responders for their incredible work in response to the floods.” “Search efforts continue in the same area for the four people and the second vehicle.”
“Last evening, the RCMP Underwater Recovery Team conducted an underwater search of a flooded field and located an unoccupied pick-up truck believed to have been the vehicle that the children were traveling in,” the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement. On Sunday, Canadian police said they were continuing to search for two children, a youth and a man who had gone missing after the vehicles they were traveling in were submerged in two separate incidents early Saturday. “We have had biblical proportions of rain over the night and into the day,” Halifax Mayor Mike Savage said Saturday.
(CNN) - Three months’ worth of rain over the course of one day has flooded the Canadian province of Nova Scotia since Friday night, inundating streets, forcing evacuations and leaving at least four people missing – including two children.Ī provincewide state of emergency has been declared, including for the Halifax regional municipality as well as nearby East Hants, West Hants, Lunenburg and Queens.
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