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Dave Hayes says winter storm trends can be slow-moving, while severe summer weather can emerge with little warning.
ing at this, he recalled. “I said I didn’t know. I hadn’t even thought of it. I was just doing something I love.”
But around that time, crowdfunding was becoming more popular, so he threw up a GoFundMe link.
“I figured, if people want to support my work financially, they’ll do it.
If they think it has value, they’ll kick me a few bucks. I linked to it during big storms, and during 2015,
I produced a crowdfunded support drive, about four or five weeks, talking about different aspects of what I was doing. I was teaching myself as I went along. It was a very unorthodox way of making a living.”
But Hayes did, in fact, begin generating steady income through donations, and while he still does some paralegal work on
the side, Dave Hayes the Weather Nut is, in fact, his living now. He compares the model to Patreon, a popular
site through which people can directly support artists producing content.
“It’s very unorthodox, how my life has played out,” he added. “You never know what’s going to happen until you work on some- thing and ask for assistance.”
“It’s very unorthodox, how my life has played out.”
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