'Don't worry, Mommy,' the 5-year-old said as their SUV was buffeted by California floodwater. Moments later, he was pulled from her arms.
As central California floodwater swept away their SUV Monday morning, 5-year-old Kyle Doan, now missing, encouraged his mother. “Don’t worry, Mommy,” the boy said, his father, Brian Doan, recalled Wednesday. “He wasn’t quite processing what was going on,” Doan told CNN. “But he was so calm talking to my wife while they were still in the car.” A powerful storm, among the latest to assault the West Coast, has turned streets into rivers and forced the closure of major roadways in California.
The search for Kyle continued on Wednesday, with assistance from other law enforcement agencies, after it was halted the previous afternoon due to low visibility. The initial search had been suspended Monday afternoon because of severe weather, according to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office. Doan lamented that he isn’t hopeful. “The hard thing to say to a lot of people at this point in time is, it’s not a rescue. It’s a recovery,” he said, his voice breaking again.
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