Children of man who died in N.S. floods question why roads open, alerts delayed

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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.

“In my eyes, this was an avoidable situation.”

Nicholas Holland, 52, was among the four people who died in the

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