Missing 5-year-old California boy Kevin Doan's last words were 'don't worry mommy' before he was swept away from his mother by California's raging floodwaters Monday morning. 

Authorities have continued to search for Doan as weather permits since he disappeared on Monday amid the region's recent terrible storms. 

On Wednesday, father Brian Doan spoke out for the first time, telling the press his son's last words and defending his wife after she was rescued without her son.

'He wasn't quite processing what was going on,' Doan said. 'But he was so calm talking to my wife while they were still in the car.' 

Kyle Doan was swept away on the central coast near San Miguel and while his mother was rescued, searches thus far have only turned up one of his Nike shoes. 

Brian Doan said his wife 'tried to hold on to him and it was hard to stabilize things with the current and they got separated.'

However, he was unequivocal that his wife did nothing wrong.  

'She made the best decisions she could,' Doan said. 'I got to keep stressing that. She couldn't stay in the car with him. The flows were going to overpower the car later on… They got out. That was the right thing to do.'

After the search was suspended again Wednesday due to low visibility, Doan admitted that he's prepared for the worst.

'I've seen enough, you know. It's tough,' Doan said. 'You know what the odds are. And as much as people try to be optimistic – and I'm supportive for my wife – it's hard. The first night was damn hard – just thinking, 'Oh my God, why couldn't they have found him already?' 

Doan told the press that his son had gone through a difficult past year to begin with, needing a rod placed in his leg after it was fractured at school, according to CNN. 

Brian called Kyle 'a great kid' who liked dancing and was silly, talkative and outgoing and desperate to get back to school. 

'He liked to be silly and trying to get attention in all those ways that a five-year-old likes to do. He likes to play soccer and he liked his Paw Patrol.' 

Doan and his mother were headed to school Monday when her truck was stuck just after 8 a.m. local time, according to the New York Post. 

While residents nearby were able to rescue Kyle's mother, he was swept away by the floodwaters and taken downstream, with some officials saying he may have been taken down a river. 

Officials in San Luis Obispo have said that finding Doan remain their highest priority. 

Kyle Doan is described as having dirty blond hair, hazel eyes, 4 feet tall and about 52 pounds. He was last seen in a black puffer jacket with a red liner, blue jeans and blue/gray Nike tennis shoes.  

Storm-ravaged California is bracing for another round of lashing rains and damaging winds. 

While the rain eased in many areas Wednesday, thunderstorms led yet another atmospheric river into the northern half of the state and forecasters said the latest system would be followed by more storms this weekend and next week. 

From the San Francisco Bay Area down to Los Angeles, Californians had little time to rest between assessing damage from the last storm and preparing for the next. 

At least 18 people have died in the storms battering the state. The figure is likely to rise, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday during a visit to the scenic town of Capitola, just up the Santa Cruz coast from Rio Del Mar, that was hard hit by flooding creek waters.