Mom wants quicker reform on disaster preparations, one year after flood took son – Halifax [Video]

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.”

Natalie Harnish, six, died in the same vehicle as Sisco, while 52-year-old Nick Holland and …