Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – November 28, 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

• Winterlike blast to unleash heavy lake-effect snow, squalls in Upper Midwest and Northeast – Accu Weather 
• Train of storms to drench western US into December – Accu Weather 
• Fire season in Australia starts, early and ominous – Seattle Times
• A landslide in Alaska has devastated one family, killing three members and leaving two kids missing -AP
• What to know about the respiratory illnesses surging in some parts of China – ABC News
• Could chatbots help devise the next pandemic virus? – Science.org

Operational Resilience

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces Supply Chain Resilience Center to Protect U.S. Supply Chain from Evolving Threats – DHS
• We rarely hear about the disasters that were avoided – but there’s a lot we can learn from them – The Conversation
• A How-To for Reducing Flooding Impacts in Coastal Towns – The University of Texas at Arlington
• How to make flood-prone areas in New Jersey more resilient to climate change – Smart Water Magazine
• Green resilience hubs offer disaster relief and affordability, Yale report finds – Yale Daily News

Extremism/Terrorism

• Ohio Walmart shooting suspect motivated by racial extremism: FBI – ABC News
• German security officials say they foiled alleged far-right attack by 18-year-old – ABC News
• Gaza war increases risk of Islamist attacks in Europe, security officials say – Reuters
• The Israel-Hamas War Has Upended the Terrorist Threat Matrix – RAND