Mom tells the heartbreaking story of the last thing her 5-year-old son said to her before he was swept away by California floodwaters: 'Mom, it's OK.'
Lindsy Doan didn't think the water flowing over the creek crossing on San Marcos Road was deeper than normal when she tried navigating it in her SUV while driving her 5-year-old son to school., was much higher and flowing more strongly than she anticipated. Doan cursed as she lost control of the steering and the 4,300-pound Chevy Traverse was carried off the road and pinned against a large sycamore tree.
Doan, a special education teacher at the school, was less enthusiastic, wishing she had a few more days off as she took the back road from their home near Paso Robles. "But as soon as I hit the bottom, my car started to drift and I realized that it wasn't the same," she said."It was completely different."
Neil Collins and his wife, Danielle, who own an orchard off San Marcos Road, had gone down to the creek that morning to see if they would be able to get out across the floodwaters.
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