It doesn't make sense to Robie Holland that — as 250 millimetres of rain poured down in rural Nova Scotia — there was nothing to stop his father from travelling down a rapidly flooding road.
"Why was the road open? That's the main question I keep coming back to .... It was flooding, and it wasn't safe for people to be going down those roads. Why, if you're out in the rural communities, is it a free-for-all?" he asked in an interview Friday.Nicholas Holland, 52, was among the four people who died in the historic, inland flooding on July 22, as torrential waters poured over rural Route 14 near Brooklyn, N.S.
"If they're on the highway stranded and they'd had an alert saying, 'Don't go down to this area,' they wouldn't have gone there. They're going to change their plans," Robie Holland said. Robie Holland said his father managed to smash the windows out of the car, allowing the four inside to escape the sinking vehicle. "He gave everyone a chance to survive," he said.
Robie and Sophie Holland said it comforts them to recall their father's efforts to help others and the dedication of searchers who spent days looking for the bodies. But they say they remain troubled by the inability of the province and emergency management officials to react more quickly in rural areas.
" say 'Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims,' but if you'd done something earlier, things might be different," she said.
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