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
- Wet weekend in South to bring flood, severe weather threats - Accu Weather
- Punishing California storm pattern still has a final act - Washington Post
- Record rainfall, triple-digit winds, hundreds of mudslides. Here’s California’s storm by the numbers - AP
- Southern Californians recount harrowing mudslides during deadly record-breaking storm - AP
- How an Oklahoma earthquake showed danger remains after years of quakes becoming less frequent - AP
- Modeling and paleoclimate study links recent hurricane trends with internal climate variability - Climate.gov
- Is it time for a Category 6 for super cyclones? No – warnings of floods or storm surges are more useful - The Conversation
- CyberShake study uses Summit supercomputer to investigate earthquake hazards - Oak Ridge National Lab
- Organizers aim to improve the South’s climate resilience - Yale Climate Connections
- Mississippi River basin drought conditions officially over - Water World Magazine
Operational Resilience
- Preparing for Impact: The Need for More Resilient Water Infrastructure - Water Finance & Management Magazine
- Why record rain hasn’t washed away California’s water woes - Washington Post
- Deep learning model shows promise in short-term water consumption prediction - Smart Water Magazine
- Why Canada needs to dramatically update how it prepares for and manages emergencies - The Conversation
- Cargo train locomotive derails in Colorado, spilling 100s of gallons of diesel - AP
- New method monitors grid stability with hydropower project signals - Oak Ridge National Lab
Extremism/Terrorism
- Tennessee man who was working with militias planned to act as a sniper and attack Southern border, feds say - NBC News
- Man Pleads Guilty to Shooting Spree Targeting Elected Officials - DOJ
- NYC woman convicted of using bitcoins to fund terrorism in Syria - ABC 2 New York
- Turkish police shoot dead two 'terrorists' during attack on Istanbul courthouse - France 24
- Online Extremism Is Decades in the Making - Time
- Extremist Content Online: Neo-Nazi Accelerationist Telegram Channels Encourage Violence - Counter Extremism Project
