The new building -- a renovated, five-floor former parking garage -- gave Christie's IT team a rare opportunity to start over again.

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"My brother's house was in Moore, so it makes you take more immediate action, " Lillard said while her young nieces played on a blanket on the floor of the parking garage.

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"My brother's house was in Moore, so it makes you take more immediate action, " Ms. Lillard said while her young nieces played on a blanket on the floor of the parking garage.

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Aparna Dash managed to escape her 26th floor room and take cover in a parking lot.

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Aparna Dash managed to escape her 26th-floor room and take cover in a parking lot, her husband said.

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The hotel location near the French Quarter in New Orleans was good for our personal safety (we could operate out of the fourth floor in an interior hallway during the worst of it), but parking the satellite truck would be a problem.

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One possible use of this technology is to provide context information from the car, something like the engine speed has reached 2000 rpm, the parking brake has been disengaged, the transmission gear is in drive and the brake pedal is fully off the floor.

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