We got him on the phone to see if he needed to be talked back from the ledge. Since you left TV, your fans have always been able to count on your social media meteorology.
No more? I was at a building yesterday looking at extractions. Why are you taking this one so hard? Because I love it so much. I try the best I can. March is notoriously tough to forecast for East Coast events. I did analyze it. I did look into it. Like what? Listen, my experience helps me greatly.
But to do this right, to not just get up there and present a forecast, it takes a hell of a lot of work. You need to analyze maps in detail. That helps you solidify the forecast. When I was looking at it last night at three in the morning, I was saying, Oh, shit, this is gonna bust.
When I was looking at it at three in the morning, it was beyond logic to me that we would get six to ten inches. The ground is warm. Meanwhile, the people actually on TV were calling for a more significant storm. It defied what logically and meteorologically should take place.
Oh, I get the warnings. I see the National Weather Service predictions. I should just do my own forecast. He even asked the Philadelphians to stay home and schools to be closed. Unfortunately to John, the big said storm never came to be. As a result, he received thousand-plus angry emails and many death threats from his viewers. He remained there for six years. In December , he was put on hold after taking part in Playboy magazine and was fired a month later.
There, he launched a weather website known as Weather Savior but it was shut down in less than a year. In this new area of work, he mainly specializes in selling homes to CEOs, celebrities, famous people, as well as athletes. He once served as the listing agent for an estate on Long Island where F.
There is no dought, therefore, he earns a good salary. When the city got less than an inch of snow, he was sent anonymous death threats, pages torn from the Bible and a beer bottle stuffed with dead crabs. At the time of the blown forecast, Bolaris did accept full responsibility and apologized in a cover story in the Philadelphia Daily News.
He would be replaced at Channel 2 with Lonnie Quinn. In March , Bolaris was the victim of a "Bar Girls" scam run by an international crime ring.
That month Bolaris flew to South Beach, Florida for the weekend. Two shapely brunettes picked him up at a bar, coaxed him to do shots, and slipped him a roofie. The ladies had left him a voicemail saying they had the glasses; when he went out to meet them, they drugged him again.
When AmEx wouldn't void the charges, Bolaris went to the police. In April , with the help of Bolaris' testimony, the FBI busted what turned out to be a multinational crime ring and arrested 17 people. Nobody knew about any of this until May of , when then-Daily News editor Larry Platt convinced Bolaris to tell readers his story.
This incident also led to an episode on the cable show "American Greed". Bolaris then worked for two years as a weather contributor for Philly. In , he was in a relationship with former Playboy Playmate Erica Smitheman and they got engaged on the Howard Stern show in , when he was 55 and she was A few months later, she commandeered his phone while he was asleep and tweeted sexy photos of herself to all his Twitter followers.
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