85 days missing.
I really truly thought Paul would have either come home by now, or would have been 'found.'
The Yellowstone River is still running very high compared to other years, but there are people out fishing and rafting daily. I have seen nothing on our local news about either Paul's disappearance, nor Brandon Fitch's recovery effort.
Paul's family and friends: please forgive my next remarks. There are no readily available statistics about how far a person's body might might travel on such a major river through the spring runoff and flood seasons. Brandon, who was reportedly seen entering the Yellowstone River at Reed Point on June 16th, has still not been recovered. In July of 2016, the body of one young girl, 12 year old Taeva Hawkins, traveled 6 miles from the point she went into the river. So many variables are different in each case and I am sure these are extremely problematic for a search and recovery effort -- the date and location a person entered the river, their physical weight and height, the condition of the river (flow, height, temperature, debris), seasonal weather, location of dams and tributaries. But as far as I can tell, no searchers for either Paul nor Brandon have looked nearly as far as 6 miles. I believe when they were searching for Taeva, no one expected her body to travel so far.
Sorry, my apologies again to Paul's loved ones.