Lindsy Doan spent Saturday morning on the banks of the Salinas River, 5 miles downstream from where floodwaters tore her son from her grip seven weeks ago.
She wonders if he might be buried under the sand, that the frigid waters may have preserved his body. So when she picks up a shovel, as she has nearly every weekend, she is careful when she digs.
“We do get this feeling like they tabled Kyle as a cold case now,” Brian Doan said of authorities. “They’re not being forthcoming anymore. They don’t seem to want to return our calls or texts as promptly.” The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services said in a statement Friday that the “full weight of the state remains behind the local officials leading the efforts.” After Lindsy’s first request, the state waived the permitting process to use excavators along riverbanks.
Lindsy has picked up a shovel nearly every time. A red scar on her neck flares up from time to time. It’s the only remaining physical sign of her traumatic ordeal. “No!” she called out as he drifted away. She let go of the tree branch to float after him, she said, but was pulled underwater again and again, rammed and scratched by tree trunks and sharp branches. Then, she lost sight of him.
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