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Sobbing dad, 34, told wife ‘I don’t know what to do’ in haunting final call before drowning as floodwater surrounded car

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Comment now Next A DAD-OF-FOUR sobbed as he made a desperate final call before drowning in devastating floods, his heartbroken wife has revealed. Joshua Bennett, 34, had gone to buy coffee on Monday when he got caught in powerful, riverlike floodwaters that ran out of control through Palm Bay, Florida . 4 Joshua Bennett, 34, gave a heartbreaking call to his wife Stacy before he died in horror floods this week Source: Facebook/ Josh Bennett 4 Joshua, an ‘amazing husband and dad’ leaves behind four children Source: Facebook/ Josh Bennett Advertisement His truck suddenly became submerged, his wife Stacy explained.

She told local station WESH2 her husband’s emotional final words to her. Sign up for The Sun newsletter Thank you! Email address Please provide a valid email. Your info will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy You'll now receive top stories, breaking news, and more, straight to your email. Stacy said: “He called me on FaceTime, and he was just crying like, ‘I don’t know what to do, I don’t know what to do’. “He said he’s in the middle of a river, and his car was submerged with water all around.”

Joshua sobbed as Stacy frantically urged him to smash through his truck window to escape. But the call suddenly dropped. Stacy rang 911 and spent hours desperately trying to get help for her husband, who was later found dead. She called Joshua an “amazing husband and dad” to their children. Advertisement Most read in The Sun AIR RAGE Moment passenger 'grabs traveller & strangles him’ in shocking plane bust-up KEBAB BANDITS Is your kebab made from diseased sheep?

How farm theft chaos puts YOU at risk THROW AWAY THE KEY Evil doomsday cult leader who murdered 190 children jailed for 200 years NEGLECT HELL Evil childminder who left 27 kids home alone screaming in distress is jailed 4 His wife Stacy has revealed how he called her saying ‘I don’t know what to do, I don’t know what to do’ Source: Facebook/ Josh Bennett 4 She begged him to break out, but his truck kept filling up with water and the call dropped Source: Facebook/ Josh Bennett Stacy said: “He has a son and three daughters.

He was super obsessed with them. He loved to do activities with them.” Joshua’s widow said he had loved baking with his kids and taking them jet skiing. She said: “We got married in 2020, and we ended up having kids. Twins. I had twin girls. They were born super early. They were preemies. Advertisement “They were born at 25 weeks, one-pounders. And they spent about three months in McHugh.” Stacy said she then became a stay-at-home mum caring for their kids, three out of four of who have special needs.

She fought back tears as she said: “Now we’re essentially starting from scratch “He’s not here. I don’t have my support system. They don’t have their father.” Relatives launched a fundraising appeal to support Stacy after Joshua’s death, which they called an “unimaginable tragedy”. Advertisement They described the dad on GoFundMe as someone who “was generous, adventurous, and always wanted to make sure the people around him felt comfortable and cared for”.

Palm Bay police said Joshua died after getting trapped in the car on a suburban street. RECOMMENDED STORIES He was one of two people who died as . Hundreds of others had to be rescued as parts of the state were . Comment now

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What we found (1)

The Sun tells the story of Joshua Bennett, a father of four who drowned in his truck in Palm Bay floods, mostly through his widow's words, and reports it accurately. It calls the storm historic and gives a rainfall figure of up to 20 inches in 12 hours, but never tells the reader that a warming climate makes extreme rainfall like this more frequent and more severe.

  1. Leaves out the climate link

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    “slammed with up to 20inches of rain in just 12 hours”

    Why this matters
    The words "up to 20inches of rain in just 12 hours" give the scale of the extreme rainfall that drowned Joshua Bennett and close the article with no word on why such downpours are becoming more common.
    The impression it gives
    A reader takes the deluge as a freak act of nature with no wider cause, a one-off bout of bad weather.
    The context
    Human-caused warming has made heavy rainfall more frequent and more intense. The article never mentions climate or warming anywhere, so the reader gets the toll without the cause that is loading the dice.

    How we know

    • On the recordThat warming has made hot extremes, heavy rainfall, agricultural and ecological drought, fire weather and intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe.ipcc.ch (opens in a new tab)
    • On the recordIt is unequivocal that human influence, chiefly the burning of fossil fuels, has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.ipcc.ch (opens in a new tab)
    • Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “climate” and “warming”.

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    “a historic storm ravaged Florida this week”

    Why this matters
    The Sun calls the storm "historic", which tells the reader it was exceptional, and stops there.
    The impression it gives
    A reader understands the storm as a record-breaking freak event and nothing more, with no link to a trend.
    The context
    Storms that dump record rain are becoming more likely as the planet warms. Calling an event historic without that line leaves the record-breaking scale unexplained.

    How we know

    • On the recordThat warming has made hot extremes, heavy rainfall, agricultural and ecological drought, fire weather and intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe.ipcc.ch (opens in a new tab)
    • Elsewhere in the article“up to 20inches of rain in just 12 hours”

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    He was one of two people who died as a historic storm dumped up to 20 inches of rain on parts of Florida in 12 hours. Climate change is making extreme downpours like this more frequent and more severe.

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