To be a building, half of a structure's height must have usable floor space.
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The Pocket PC-based PPT 2700 series, for instance, can withstand multiple drops from a heightof four feet to a concrete floor, and it is sealed against rain and dust.
It was for Terry Horn, whose home in Broad Channel, an island community in Queens, was flooded with 51 inches of water on its first floor as his son scrambled upstairs with the family's dogs at the heightof the storm.
The screen stops well above the sidewalk, revealing V-shaped concrete supports and a glass-walled ground floor with views of a double-height sunken gallery inside.