Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – August 29, 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

• Severe weather to target Minneapolis to Detroit before the holiday weekend – Accu Weather
• Michigan power outages affect over 300,000 after potent storms lash the state – USA Today
• Progress Made On Wildfires That Have Burned 460,000 Acres In Wyoming, Montana – Cowboy State Daily
• Wild week of US weather includes heat wave, tropical storm, landslide, flash flood and snow – AP
• What is an Atlantic Niña? How La Niña’s smaller cousin could affect hurricane season – The Conversation
• ‘The tropics are broken:’ So where are all the Atlantic hurricanes? – USA Today
• Where are the hurricanes? The Atlantic’s late-August nap may lead into a stormy September – Yale Climate Connections
• ENSO and the southwest United States “megadrought” – NOAA

Operational Resilience

• Research team designs AI approach to drought zoning in Canada  – Smart Water Magazine
• Conflicting federal policies may cost residents more on flood insurance, and leave them at risk – AP
• Takeaways from AP’s report on federal policies shielding information about potential dam failures – AP
• Your Guide to Surviving Extreme Weather – WIRED Magazine
• Man accused of starting destructive California wildfire by throwing firework out car window – AP
• Urban wildfires disrupt streams and their tiny inhabitants − losing these insects is a warning of bigger water problems – The Conversation
• The Role Of Policy In Protecting Water Quality – Water Online
• Realizing the Power of Community in Disaster Recovery – Domestic Preparedness
• An Electric Grid That Thinks Ahead – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Extremism/Terrorism

• Solingen Stabbing Ignites Fears of Resurgent Jihadism Targeting Germany – Soufan Center
• Fort Liberty Soldier Charged with Unlawful Firearms Trafficking and Lying About His Involvement in Insurrectionist Groups – DOJ
• Man Who Threatened to Kill Federal Judges and Other Public Officials Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison – DOJ
• U.S. Neo-Nazis Visit Canada for Meeting of White Supremacist “Active Clubs” – AntiHate.CA
• Swedish neo-Nazis ‘chatted about killing Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer’ – The Local SE
• Fanning the Flames: Online Misinformation and Far-Right Violence in the UK – Global Network on Extremism and Technology