Chapter Fifty-Four
12:48 PM
Temperature: 81 degrees
Winds: 34 MPH
Pressure: 29.426 bars
Rain: 0.42 inches
The wind whipped around the corners and picked up speed as it barreled down 23rd Street, throwing rain against their faces. The three men leaned into it as they sloshed across the flooded street and made their way to the Strand. Despite the weather, a crowd had already begun to gather at the intersection. Isaac pushed through, leading his assistants around the corner and toward the west. When they broke through the crowd, Alfred froze. Bricks and pieces of molded cornice were scattered along the sidewalk and had built a small dam of shrapnel in the street that was now being pelted by cold drops of rain. Pieces of shattered glass littered the sidewalk around their feet. Joseph’s v
