Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – October 29, 2024

Author: Alec Davison

Created: Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 15:36

Categories: General Security and Resilience

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

Drought to downpours: Rain could trigger flooding in Central US – AccuWeather
Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of US – AP
What November, The Last Month Of Hurricane Season, Usually Produces – Weather Channel
Fire destroys 1 home and forces the evacuation of 700 others in a Colorado subdivision – AP
Warmer Fall, Later Freeze – Climate Central
Assessing the U.S. and Global Climate in September 2024 – NOAA
Where there’s smoke: the rising death toll from climate-charged fire in the landscape – Conversation

Operational Resilience

USGS Releases New Products that Map Four Decades of Land Cover Change – USGS
The fate of thousands of US dams hangs in the balance, leaving rural communities with hard choices – Grist
Building Trust Between Communities and Utilities – Water Online
New technologies are emerging that can convert CO2 into fuel, but what impact will they have on water resources – Argonne National Laboratory
Vandals target railway line flood pump – BBC News
Florida man arrested for threatening utility workers restoring power after Hurricane Milton – ABC News
Amid hurricanes and wildfires, the legacy grid, not clean power, is failing local communities – Utility Dive
More Electricity Transmission Lines Would Lower Costs, Increase Reliability – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
One of the largest solar projects in the US opens in Texas, backed by Google – AP

Extremism/Terrorism