(TLP:CLEAR) Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – December 11, 2025

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

• Lake-effect, dangerous snow squalls to follow midweek clipper storm – AccuWeather
• Record flooding threatens Washington as more heavy rain pounds the Northwest – AP
• Polar vortex sending ‘wrecking ball’ of cold air to US – USA Today
• Primed to burn: what’s behind the intense, sudden fires burning across New South Wales and Tasmania – Conversation
• Wildfires destroy 40 homes and kill a firefighter in Australia – AP
• Even ‘weak’ cyclones are being turned into deadly rainmakers by fast-warming oceans – Conversation
• A wind burst forming over remote ocean may affect global weather in 2026 – Washington Post
• Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages – Ars Technica

Operational Resilience

• Americans lost more power last year than any year in previous decade: EIA – Utility Dive
• When it rains it pours: What Buffalo Trace Distillery’s flood tells us about physical risk – First Street Foundation
• 2025 U.S. Mass Killings Decrease, But Don’t Expect a Permanent Downward Trend – Security Management Magazine
• A West Texas county wants to better prepare for floods. Paying for it will be tricky. – Texas Tribune
• Transforming Disaster Financing: An Alternative to FEMA Funding – Domestic Preparedness
• EPA Announces $7 Billion in Newly Available WIFIA Funding and Five New WIFIA Loan Approvals – EPA
• What Secret Service Raids Near the U.N. Tell Us About Wireless Risk – Homeland Security Today
• Here’s what the new National Security Strategy says about threats to critical infrastructure – Threat Beat
• Lithuania declares emergency over security risks posed by balloons from Belarus – ABC News

Extremism/Terrorism

• Europol and Spanish National Police disrupt activities of far-right terrorist group ‘The Base’ – Europol
• Wilmington Man Charged After Machinegun and Manifesto are Found – DOJ
• Two indicted for arson and terrorism support in Alabama Walmart fire – WBMA
• Four arrested in right-wing terror investigation – BBC News
• Quebec men accused in alleged extremist plot will go to trial following federal indictment – CBC News
• Lone-Actor Terrorism: Patterns, Lethality, and Policy Imperatives – Homeland Security Today