How has the heavy rain impacted Christmas tree purchasing?

WEST SACRAMENTO — ‘Tis the season to buy Christmas timber — however has this week’s storm dampened vacation spirits? Not for the staff organising store.

In West Sacramento, Chad Erickson awoke and sized up his Christmas tree lot.

“We do not thoughts the rain. It is the wind that basically tears us up,” he stated.

Erickson leaves the timber down. Final 12 months, he had no alternative.

“On the final day, we had an enormous twister come by, it looks like. [It] tore our tent and the whole lot else,” he stated.

Down the street in Fairfield, they had been righting the reindeer.

A crew at one other tree lot took the time to prep a whole lot of timber whereas the rain poured.

“The group of fellows out listed here are glad and joyful they’re exterior as an alternative of inside,” certainly one of them stated. “I really get pleasure from it.”

Regardless of the climate, work continues.

Mom Nature and Previous Man Winter are collectively for essentially the most great time of the 12 months.

Erickson stated it is the season for promoting, and rain simply means extra turnover.

“We’re lined just a little bit,” he stated of his tree lot. “[People] appear to be faster once they come, faster once they’re selecting the timber and get them out of right here.”