Iowa weatherman quits, citing PTSD from threats over ‘liberal’ climate coverage

NY POST ^ | June 22, 2023 | By Ariel Zilber

[dennisw]

A longtime meteorologist is quitting his job at an Iowa TV station and plans to change careers after viewer backlash over his “liberal conspiracy theory on the weather” led him to seek treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Chris Gloninger announced Wednesday that he will depart KCCI-TV in Des Moines in July, according to the Washington Post.

The 18-year TV veteran, who joined the CBS affiliate in 2021, told the newspaper he was inundated with “harassing” emails calling him an “idiot” for his “liberal conspiracy theory on the weather” which had him “pushing nothing but a Biden hoax.”

“I was not sleeping,” Gloninger said. “I had bags under my eyes.”

Some of the commenters asked for his address while others vowed to give him “an Iowan welcome you will never forget,” according to the Washington Post.

Another troll angrily urged Gloninger to “go east and drown from the ice cap melting.”

The messages took a toll on Gloninger, who started seeing a therapist and sought treatment for PTSD.

When one of the angry messages appeared in his inbox, he rushed home from the hair salon where his wife was waiting alone and suggested to her that they call the police, according to the Washington Post.

Police in Iowa located a man in the town of Lenox, 63-year-old Danny H. Hancock, who was found to have been the one who sent the threatening messages.

[logi_cal869]

Well played!

[Regulator]

Snowflake melts

[Wuli]

Disagreeing with a weatherman who is a climate alarmist is fine. Making threats at him is not.

[dennisw]

Your posts give me PSTD. But that’s for another time in another decade.

[logi_cal869]

Ironic, considering that my wife has pinned down the obnoxious noise she hears in the house to every time I read one of yours when you’re uke cheering.