PICTURED: Missing 5-year-old boy swept away by California’s ‘raging floodwaters’ identified

A 5-year-old boy who went missing after he and his mother became stranded in a truck in California floods has been identified as the search was called off overnight.

Kyle Doan washed up on the Central Coast near San Miguel and while his mother was rescued, searches so far have only turned up one of her Nike sneakers.

A change in the weather Tuesday allowed officials to continue searching for Doan.

“It’s still very dangerous,” said San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s spokesman Tony Cipolla. The streams flow very fast.

Air and water rescue teams were deployed Tuesday in an attempt to locate the missing child near Paso Robles.

Doan and his mother were on their way to school Monday when their truck got stuck just after 8 a.m. local time, according to the New York Post.

While nearby residents were able to rescue Kyle’s mother, floodwaters swept him away and carried him downstream, with some officials saying they may have carried him downstream.

San Luis Obispo officials have said finding Doan remains their top priority.

Kyle Doan is described as having dirty blonde hair, hazel eyes, 4 feet tall and around 52 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black puffer jacket with red lining, blue jeans, and blue/grey Nike sneakers.

California was rocked by more wild winter while the next in a powerful string of storms loomed on the horizon Tuesday.

Millions of residents faced flood warnings, nearly 50,000 people received evacuation orders, and more than 110,000 homes and businesses were without power due to heavy rain, lightning, hail and mudslides.

At least 17 people have died from the storms that began late last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a visit to the picturesque town of Capitola on the Santa Cruz coast that was hit hard by storm surge and flooding from the waters of the creek last week.

Two motorists in Visalia, California are the latest fatalities from the state’s historic storms after a tree fell in his vehicle on State Route 99 around 6 a.m. Tuesday.

The incident in the Northern California area caused multiple vehicles to collide, California Highway Patrol officials said after the accident.

The deaths come just hours after a mother and daughter were rescued from a sinkhole in a Los Angeles neighborhood overnight after the road they were on continued to ‘wear and deteriorate’ due to heavy rains. that hit the area.

The massive storm, caused by a series of atmospheric rivers, has wreaked havoc across the state, including residents of star-studded Montecito, California, including Prince Harry and Meghan, Oprah and Ellen, who have been warned that they evacuate

The Golden State saw no relief from torrential rains Tuesday as highways became flood zones, forcing the evacuation of thousands in cities with a history of deadly mudslides.

Rainfall throughout the day was expected to be “heavy to excessive” across the state, especially in Southern California, as wind gusts reached more than 40 miles per hour in many places, the National Weather Service said. .

“There have been fewer people killed in the last two years from major California wildfires than have died since New Year’s Day related to this weather,” Newsom said. “These conditions are serious and they are deadly.”

The storm that began Monday dumped more than a foot and a half of rain on the mountains of Southern California and buried ski resorts in the Sierra Nevada with more than 5 feet of snow.

Rockfalls and mudslides closed roads, and gushing runoff turned sections of highways into waterways. Swollen rivers inundated homes, and residents of small communities inundated with water and mud were left stranded.

“We’re all stuck here,” Brian Briggs said, after the deluge triggered mudslides in remote Matilija Canyon that completely buried a home and cut off the only road to nearby Ojai.

Briggs described a terrifying night when the canyon stream began to flood people’s backyards and the surrounding hills, stripped of vegetation in the 2017 Thomas Fire, began to crumble into darkness.

Mudflows washed sheds, gazebos and latrines into the creek, he said. After helping neighbors get to higher ground, she returned to her house to find her fence waist-deep in mud.

A helicopter dropped 10 sheriff’s deputies Tuesday to help residents of dozens of homes in the canyon and Briggs said he hoped they would airlift it out.

Raging waters crested the banks of Bear Creek and inundated parts of the city of Merced and neighboring Planada, a small farming community along a highway that leads to Yosemite National Park.

Neighborhoods were under water with cars submerged up to their roofs. Residents ordered to evacuate loaded whatever they could salvage on their backs as they drove off in the rain.

On Sunday, President Joe Biden issued an emergency declaration, granting California access to desperately needed funds and resources.