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HEAVY WEATHER CAN PASS IF YOU WORK HARD & PERSIST(2mins): When I was fired from my full-time job in Hatfield due to downsizing in 2013, I was in trouble, I was scared, and had low money. Options were few, and I was living with an older married couple to save $. Despite multiple applications, no one was responding to my job queries. I was living very low to the ground, struggling, and going through a dark night of the soul. Despite these deeply low times with little to no self-esteem, I did have the following: --2,000 readers of my weather reports --My passion and love for meteorology --My desire to be helpful to others --Extra time, which I poured into reporting and educating local folks about our weather. I persisted in doing what I loved for its own sake. I committed to being helpful to my growing audience. I had zero expectations or future plans. PERSISTENCE WAS MY WAY FORWARD At the bottom of this life trough, I had 3 key elders show up who believed in me more than I believed in myself. They told me to continue with my new weather service, to persist. Then during that brutally cold and snowy Winter of 2013-14, around 7500 more of you showed up and told me to keep going, to persist. Later in 2014 some of you started to cast your “votes of confidence” in my direction by supporting my work financially, and told me to keep up the good work, to persist. Now 11 years on from that life reboot, I’m still here, still wanting to continue, to persist. But I can only continue if enough of you “vote” today to sustain this resource and my service to you during my annual 2025 Support Drive which ends in just 2 weeks, and I’m still well short of my 4% Reader Support Goal (we’re 58% there, and 42% from the goal). Click below to Keep Dave on the Job for you & yours for a 13th Consecutive Year: https://westernmassweather.com/support-network/ In closing, hopefully by now I’ve proven myself to be a reliable, caring, trustworthy and hard-working neighbor that has earned your support after working many hundreds of storms for over a decade. If you trust me and rely on my work, I’m speaking to you and humbly asking for your support today at any comfortable level that works for you. It could be a more manageable monthly amount (“set it and forget it”) or a one-time contribution with an annual goal of 4% of my 60,000 readers chipping in any amount ($3+/month, or $25+/once, as examples). Historically, this 4% goal has worked to sustain my reporting year to year, and I’m currently almost 60% to the goal with a way to go still, and just 2 weeks left in the 2025 drive. With your help today, at the secure link below, I’m confident we’ll get there like the past 10 years so we can continue to rely on each other. Click below to Keep Dave on the Job for you & yours for a 13th Consecutive Year: https://westernmassweather.com/support-network/ From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for helping me today so I can persist in my goal of helping you and yours throughout 2025. Sincerely, Dave Hayes.