Happy Anniversary, ‘Turn Around, Don’t Drown’

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s a slogan designed to save lives. KXAN meteorologists have been using it ever since its creation. Those who have lived in Central Texas for a long time know that flooding is one of the top weather-related killers. The National Weather Service reports an average of 90 deaths each year from flooding. More than half of those deaths are caused by people driving through barricaded roads into flooded roadways. What some people fail to understand is that it takes as little as six inches of swift-moving water...