Growing up in Burney, Mike Vessels associated Christmas with snow and snowmen, but down in Chico there was a gap. It didn’t take he and wife Cory long to discover a substitute — painted tumbleweeds.
IF YOU’RE OUT AND ABOUT RIGHT NOW. AND HEY, IF YOU’RE TRAVELING THIS WEEKEND, I’LL GIVE YOU A BIG HEADS UP ON SOME SNOW. NOT NECESSARILY HERE, BUT NEARBY. THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THE NEXT ...