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The hand waved from the tall, yellow grass. Kootenai County Building Inspector Scott Weitman wouldn’t have seen the stranded duck hunter if he hadn’t detoured off State Highway 3 on Wednesday to use the restroom at the Rainey Hill Boat Launch. “He was blue when I saw him,” Weitman said. “I could see he was blue from 30 feet away.” Ricky Lee Barrett of Coeur d’Alene was duck hunting early Wednesday when the float tube he was sitting on flipped, dumping him into the dark waters of Medicine Lake near Medimont/ Taryn Hecker , Spokesman-Review.

You can read the rest of Taryn Hecker’s story in The Spokesman-Review Friday morning …