Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – August 3, 2023

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.

• Severe weather, flash flooding concerns to keep central US on alert – Accu Weather
• Northeast faces highest severe weather risk in weeks – Accu Weather
• When every day somewhere is a climate record – The Washington Post
• Where Wildfires Could Be Bad The Rest Of The Year – The Weather Channel
• Human-caused wildfires in Pacific Northwest surge compared to last year, warns U.S. Forest Service – KATU 2 News
• Scientists dig into wildfire predictions, long-term impacts – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Study of Ohio’s largest rivers shows great improvement since 1980s, officials say – AP News
• A study reveals the spread and cost of saltwater intrusion in the US Mid-Atlantic – Smart Water Magazine
• Scientists predict a collapse of the Atlantic ocean current to happen mid-century – Smart Water Magazine
• Launch of the Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy – U.S. State Department 
• As climate change leads to more and wetter storms, cholera cases are on the rise – AP News
• Man rams car onto sidewalk in South Korea and stabs people; at least 14 hurt – AP News
• Hacking tool Flipper Zero tracked by intelligence agencies, which fear white nationalists may deploy it against power grid – Daily Dot
• Nuclear war would be more devastating for Earth’s climate than cold war predictions – even with fewer weapons – The Conversation