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Repeated extreme weather events linked to rise in mental health problems, trauma
FREDERICTON — Jennifer Moore was helping a neighbour on flood-prone Stannus Street, in Windsor, N.S., last week when she fell face first in waist-deep brown water in her driveway.
It was the third time in three years the catch basin on the street overflowed, after 1.2 metres of water adulterated with sewage poured into Moore’s basement on the road that runs through the Annapolis Valley town.
“It was terrifying,” she said Monday, as she prepared to rush out to get hepatitis and tetanus shots at a local clinic.
At times, she added, she isn’t sure if symptoms like headaches, nausea and diarrhea are simply part of a stress response or a physical condition caused by exposure to the latest climate disaster in her town.