The following posts are useful for general awareness of current physical security threats, natural disaster resilience, preparedness resources, mitigation guidance, and other security-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.
Natural Hazards/Climate Change
- Highest risk of severe thunderstorms so far this year issued for parts of the US - CNN
- Extreme Rainfall Set To Break Los Angeles Record - Newsweek
- Intense April storm to threaten much of U.S. with severe weather - Axios
- Crews escorting cars around damaged section of California’s Highway 1 after lane collapsed in storm - AP
- Explosive Atlantic hurricane season predicted for 2024, AccuWeather experts warn - Accu Weather
- Northeast, New England to be blasted by late-season winter storm with power outages, travel impacts likely - Fox Weather
- Land under water: What causes extreme flooding? - Smart Water Magazine
- How much did El Niño influence precipitation over the United States this past winter? - Climate.gov
- NASA Data Shows How Drought Changes Wildfire Recovery in the West - NASA
- A new way to quantify climate change impacts: “Outdoor days” - MIT News
Operational Resilience
- A channel has opened for vessels clearing wreckage at the Baltimore bridge collapse site - AP
- New warning system could save lives during wildfires - Yale Climate Connections
- A human, environmental and economic emergency response to the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse - The Conversation
- Radar gaps threaten millions as severe weather season ramps up in U.S. - Washington Post
- Improving Assessments in Emergency Management - RAND
- Homeowners in these U.S. cities face the greatest threat from climate change - The Hill
- After a hurricane or wildfire, communities can be overwhelmed by debris - Yale Climate Connections
- ISO/RTO Council urges FERC to nix NERC’s proposed cold weather reliability standard - Utility Dive
- The Real Value of Electrifying Non-powered Dams - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- What Caused the Red Sea Submarine Cable Cuts? - Kentik
- FBI Atlanta gate crash: Man who tried to breach security identified - Fox 5
Extremism/Terrorism
- Al Qaeda Is Back—and Thriving—in Afghanistan - Foreign Policy
- ‘A Ticking Time Bomb’: In Syrian Camps, Fears of an Islamic State Revival - Wall Street Journal
- U.S. White Supremacist Propaganda Incidents Reach Historic Levels in 2023 - ADL
- Comparing Violent Extremism and Terrorism to Other Forms of Targeted Violence - National Institute of Justice
