In 2004 my daughters, ages 4 and 7 at the time, disappeared during the Christmas parade downtown.
They were riding on a float. A late afternoon in early December. Greensboro, North Carolina, a city of 300,000. The streets packed with parents and children and police cars, the parade route blocked off. The big buildings creating a canyon in which sound magnified, all the calls and car backfires amplified.
