p.At least four people were missing in the Nova Scotia region of Canada on Saturday, after the Atlantic coast was hit over the past two days by flash floods that caused road damage and power outages throughout the region.

According to Canadian police told the Associated Press, the missing are two adults and two children, the latter having disappeared when the vehicle they were in was completely submerged (although the other three occupants of the vehicle escaped).

Heavy rains in the Halifax area began Friday afternoon, dumping more than 200 millimeters of water in the region (the port city’s average is 90 to 100 millimeters for July). However, on Saturday, the authorities estimate that the amount of rain reached record values ​​for the country, more than 300 millimeters in 24 hours.

Several other towns recorded fallen poles, submerged cars, flooded houses and problems with food and electricity supplies, and police authorities even had to rescue people from small boats.

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Submerged cars, flooded roads and stranded people after the storm hit Halifax, Nova Scotia

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The region is feeling the effects of these flash floods soon after a series of wildfires devastated several parts of the country, continuing to affect parts of Ontario, British Columbia, among others. In the Halifax area, 151 homes and businesses were destroyed by the flames, and more than 16,000 people were rescued.

It also comes after a tropical storm hit the Nova Scotia region in the fall of last year and left 600,000 homes and establishments without power, causing more than $540 million in damage to the state. euros.

One of the main reasons given by scientists to explain this sequence of extreme phenomena, in Canada but also in other regions of the world, is climate change, caused by human action, with scientists predicting an increasing intensification of situations extreme weather.

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