Guys, don't wear a tie because it'll get shredded, and girls, don't wear a button-down shirt because it might cause a "wardrobe malfunction."
Those were the instructions given to the news media last week when the University of Maryland opened its engineering school's wind tunnel to provide an experience of hurricane-force winds as the storm season reaches its peak.
Strapped into a harness and anchored to the floor, reporters tried to speak intelligently and remain lucid as the wind tunnel staff increased the winds from 2 mph to 115 mph, the strength of a...
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