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Mom wants quicker reform on disaster preparations, one year after flood took son
HALIFAX — The mother of a boy who died a year ago in a Nova Scotia flood says her grief returns daily, along with frustration over what she considers the province’s slow pace in reforming its preparations for climate disasters.
Tera Sisco’s six-year-old son Colton Sisco died after the vehicle he was in overturned during torrential thunderstorms on July 22, 2023. About 258 millimetres of rain to the municipality of West Hants — a rural area northwest of Halifax — fell during the overnight flash flood.
“It’s still a struggle, every day,” said Sisco in a recent telephone interview. As the one-year mark of her son’s death approached, she said her memories of being with him before the flooding are “on replay.”
“It’s hard. … there’s part of me that still doesn’t want to believe it happened.”