The hell of high water: North Rustico cafe will be on the move to avoid more flooding [Video]

The Blue Mussel Café will be moving from its current site in North Rustico after this tourism season because the owners can’t face a future that involves risking their livelihood in a flood zone.

Christine McQuaid and her husband Steve Murphy have owned the popular restaurant for 12 years.

“In 2022, we had Fiona, and it was devastating,” McQuaid said of the post-tropical storm that swept over Prince Edward Island after creating havoc on its path north from the Caribbean.

“The water came right through here… Everything was ruined,” she said.

The CHRIS map tool developed by the UPEI Climate Lab lets users know what parts of the Island are most at risk of flooding due to extreme weather events or gradually rising sea levels. The location of the Blue Mussel Café is shown near the middle of this image. (PEI Climate Hazard and Risk Information System)

Then last year, an updated interactive mapping tool called CHRIS(for Climate Hazard …

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