Emergency Measures Organization

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.

For exhausted residents of the riverside communities of southern New Brunswick, the stressful process of cleaning up damaged properties and considering their future is underway in the wake of a record-breaking flood.

Crews packed sandbags around the New Brunswick legislature on Friday, April 27, 2018, as flood waters rose fast in the capital, submerging neighbourhoods along the St. John River and forcing a handful of residents from their homes.

Authorities in flood-soaked New Brunswick are warning that rivers will remain high for at least a few more days.