LOS ANGELES — Just like any other Monday, Lindsy Doan was driving her 5-year-old son Kyle to Lillian Larsen Elementary School in San Miguel, where she works as a special education teacher and her son is a kindergartner.
Taking their usual commute route, the Doans have driven through the San Luis Obispo County intersection of San Marcos Road and Wellsona Road near the San Marcos Creek countless times before, according to Brian Doan, Kyle's father and Lindsy Doan's husband. They were there Sunday, during the storms that have continued to batter California for more than a week, and it seemed fine.
And when Lindsy Doan got there Monday morning, there wasn't any signage indicating the road was closed, her husband said. By the time she realized the crossing had been flooded, the Chevrolet Traverse she and Kyle were in started to get swept away by the floodwaters into the creek.
