Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – December 5, 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.

Natural Hazards/Climate Change

• Pacific Northwest braces for another significant rain event and the possibility of flooding – NBC News
• Heavy snowfall drops tree branches onto power lines, causing outages in New England – AP
• Winter weather in Pacific Northwest cuts power to thousands in Seattle, dumps snow on Cascades – AP
• How does El Niño influence winter precipitation over the United States? – Climate.gov
• Johns Hopkins Research Makes Waves with Better Flood Damage Forecasting – Johns Hopkins University
• Drought data shows “an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale” – Smart Water Magazine
• Forget the ‘tripledemic.’ The U.S. is headed for a ‘syndemic’ this winter—and experts warn we’re not prepared – Fortune

Operational Resilience

• Resilient Supply Chains Reduce Homeland Security Risk – Homeland Security Today
• Study explores whether basic human water needs can be met while protecting surface and groundwater – Smart Water Magazine
• How wetlands offer greater cumulative benefit for flood control – Smart Water Magazine
• Day Of the Drones – Homeland Security Today

Extremism/Terrorism

• Las Vegas police, FBI foil reported terror plot involving Islamic State – KLAS News
• Suspected terror attack in France – One dead, two injured, after attacker yells ‘Allahu akbar’ and attacks passersby near Eiffel Tower. – Israel National News
• German police foil plot to attack synagogue and Christmas market – The Telegraph
• Assessing Terrorgram’s Support for the October 7th Hamas Terror Attack – The Accelerationism Research Consortium