noon
Before morning heavy drifts had wiped out the roads and sheeted the town in virgin white unbroken by trails or furrows . With the coming of daylight the tempest abated . Kusiak got into its working clothes and dug itself out from the heavy blanket of white that had tucked it in . By noon the business of the town was under way again . That which would have demoralized the activities of a Southern city made little difference to these Arctic Circle dwellers . Roads were cleared , paths shoveled , stores opened . Children in parkas and fur coats trooped to school and studied through the short afternoon by the aid of electric light .