2:30 A.M.
With the lightning and thunder and snow , crazy winds sprang up . They whirled and tossed the thick white snowflakes ; swept in blasts along the city streets . It piled the snow in great drifts against the houses ; whirled and sucked it upward in white powdery geysers . * * * * * At 2:30 A.M. there came a change . The dull-red radiance which swept the city changed in color . Through the shades of the spectrum it swung up to violet . And no longer was it a blast of cold , but of heat !