Location Martock, Canada
Disaster Nova Scotia floods, 2023
Tera works with people who have physical and mental disabilities and lives in the same rural municipality she grew up in: West Hants. When flash floods inundated Nova Scotia, she was working at a group home and raising her two boys, aged six and 11. Those floods would result in the death of her youngest son.
Before the floods, I was always with my boys. Always. I never got a sitter. I wasn’t dating. If I was off on a weekend, I never wanted to let the boys go. We would do all sorts of stuff together: watching movies, going to the park, or outside with the animals. They always wanted to go swimming or the splash pad. We would skip school and go to the skating rink, which I got in trouble for from the principal. If I didn’t get them out of the house, all I would hear was two kids, five years apart, tussling.
