Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – September 14, 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

• Rain-soaked New England hit by likely tornado amid wild weather ahead of Hurricane Lee’s arrival – AP
• Deadly humid heatwaves to spread rapidly as climate warms – study – The Guardian
• Faster disaster: climate change fuels ‘flash droughts’, intense downpours and storms – The Conversation
• Study reveals human destruction of global floodplains – University of Texas at Arlington
• Summer 2023 was the hottest on record – yes, it’s climate change, but don’t call it ‘the new normal’ – The Conversation

Operational Resilience

• How back-to-back disasters strain community resources – Yale Climate Connections
• What Arizona and other drought-ridden states can learn from Israel’s pioneering water strategy  – The Conversation

Extremism/Terrorism

• Bioterrorism – Could Smallpox Return? – Domestic Preparedness Journal 
• Extremist Content Online: ISIS Execution Footage Resurfaces On Meta Platform – Counter Extremism Project