Brian Kasher is the Manager of Environmental Health and Safety for the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District, with 20.1 million square feet of occupied space, 630 buildings and 1250 mobile units he serves 180, 000 daily occupants.

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Men hung like spiders off the balconies and rooftops of surrounding buildings, filming with their mobile phones.

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"The thing I think is important to know is these buildings are not related to mobile homes, except...that they come by truck, " said Jim Garrison, the architect whose firm designed them.

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Google said it will begin to add 3-D images of buildings to its Google Earth app for mobile devices.

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Players can receive in-game currency to purchase additional buildings by watching a Century 21 ad or downloading the new mobile app, which has over 3 million home listings.

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Category 3 hurricanes are known to damage small buildings or even destroy those without any solid foundation, such as mobile homes.

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Likewise, status updates on mobile can add to Google's knowledge about who does what when, which can affect the sorts of buildings and businesses it identifies on Google Maps.

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Yet this has not presented a problem until recently, as supercomputers came out of national laboratory blockhouses, into massive air-conditioned buildings in corporate headquarters, later onto millions of desktops, and now into millions more pockets in mobile devices.

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Other images showed collapsed buildings, streets littered with debris and groups of people, many of them elderly, being treated in mobile medical tents.

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