“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.Nearly 20 lives have been lost during a series of storms in recent weeks that a spokesman for the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services on Wednesday called “one of the deadliest disasters in the history of our state.”Authorities have been searching for Kyle on and off since Monday.Kyle’s mother, a special education teacher at the same school in the San Luis Obispo County village of San Miguel where he attends kindergarten, managed to remove the boy from his car seat as floodwater overwhelmed their SUV on the way to their school.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 first night was damn hard – just thinking, ‘Oh my God, why couldn’t they have found him already?’”The past year has been a difficult one for Kyle, his father said."