Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – August 1, 2024

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

• Tropical rainstorm in Caribbean may strengthen, impact Florida – Accu Weather
• Rounds of severe thunderstorms may have damaging consequences in central US – Accu Weather
• 1 person killed in Colorado wildfires as blazes torch large areas of the U.S. West – AP
• California wildfires off to explosive start, burning 30 times as many acres as all of last year – Los Angeles Times
• Severe storms in the Southeast US leave 1 dead and cause widespread power outages – AP
• Why does Vermont keep flooding? It’s complicated, but experts warn it could become the norm – AP
• The climate is changing so fast that we haven’t seen how bad extreme weather could get – The Conversation
• Nature-based solutions to disaster risk from climate change are cost effective – Science Daily
• Is Australia’s climate confusing you? Here’s why rainfall and temperatures don’t always behave as expected – The Conversation

Operational Resilience

• Rethinking Preparedness: Flooding Can Happen Anywhere – Water Online
• Navigating choppy waters: challenges in securing water infrastructure – Smart Water Magazine
• Advance Detection and Reporting Are Key to Preventing Attacks – RAND
• Strategies for Success: Preparing Practical Crisis Response and Resilience Plans – Security Management Magazine
• Louisiana cleaning up oil spill in Lafourche Parish – AP
• Biden-Harris Administration Announces $185 Million in Allocations for Rehabilitation of High Hazard Potential Dams Through Investing in America Agenda – FEMA
• Toilet paper and flat tires — the strange ways that Californians ignite wildfires – AP
• Consumers trust water utilities, scientists most for information about tap water – Smart Water Magazine
• Drones – A Life-Saving Time-Saver  – Domestic Preparedness
• Wind, waves, and other weather: How NOAA is using uncrewed systems to better understand extreme weather events – NOAA

Extremism/Terrorism

• New Jersey Man Charged with Terrorism Offenses Relating to His Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie – DOJ
• Rise in people fascinated by violence, police warn – BBC
• Violent crowd clashes with UK police after young girls killed – Reuters
• COLUMN: Core Al-Qaeda Poses a High Threat to the United States – Homeland Security Today
• Ohio Man Sentenced for Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act Violation, Communicating Interstate Threats and Conspiracy – DOJ
• Letter ‘laced with the plague’ sent to France’s interior minister – The Telegraph
• Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary sentenced to life in prison for directing a terrorist group – AP
• Australian inquiry will hear evidence that Christian extremists killed 3 in an act of terrorism – AP