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