BELLEISLE, N.B. – Stephanie and Ricky Schwarz feel lucky to be alive after their car drove head-on into a washed out road in Belleisle.
“The road was just sinking and sinking and water was rushing in,” said Stephanie.
The two were traveling home late Wednesday when they met water on a road. When they tried to drive through it, there was no actual road left.
Ricky says the ground crumbled beneath his feet moments before their car was swept into Belleisle Bay.
“That car just washed away, it was gone,” he said. “To be honest I just broke down and started crying I just I started crying.”
Paul Bradley with NB EMO says the rain came down heavy and fast, causing a lot of damage.
“There is reports of significant flooding in basements of homes, private homes and businesses,” he said. “It is widespread. There is multiple road closures, washouts and water over roads and home reports suggest we have significant damage there as well.”
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People are still left stranded by impassable roads and bridge washouts in communities like Hoyt that were complete overcome by rushing flood waters.
“There is a big dairy farm here and his cattle were standing in water this morning,” said Hoyt resident Ron Slipp.
Bradley says the disaster recovery line is being opened so people can register their damages and apply for disaster relief.
For Stephanie and Rickey who moved to New Brunswick from California just a few months ago, it’s hard for them to even fathom that rainfall can do so much destruction.
“We still can’t really believe that the road literally caved out from underneath us and our car got swept out into the Bay,” she said.
The car was still there Thursday.
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