(TLP:CLEAR) Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – December 18, 2025
Created: Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 15:05
Categories: General Security and Resilience
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
- Atmospheric Rivers Will Spread Flood Threat To Oregon, California, After Soaking Washington State – Weather Channel
- Powerful Northeast storm to usher in springlike warmth, heavy rain and wind before chill – AccuWeather
- Extreme winds kill 1, injure 2 in Idaho before shifting east across US – USA Today
- Maps show where polar vortex drove unusually snowy conditions – Washington Post
- Winter 2025-26 Outlook – NWS
- 2025’s extreme weather had the jet stream’s fingerprints all over it, from flash floods to hurricanes – Conversation
- Indian scientists predict how bird flu could spread to humans – BBC
Operational Resilience
- Bridging the skills gap: A growing threat to water infrastructure innovation – Smart Water Magazine
- FEMA Updates National Risk Index and Transitions Data and Functions to Other Agency Tools – FEMA
- COLUMN: Beyond the Emergency Preparedness Plan – Homeland Security Today
- Why Unified Workplaces Are a Leadership Priority – Security Management Magazine
- From Officer to Leader: Rethinking Leadership Development in Security – Security Management Magazine
- How Severn Trent is using satellite technology to fight floods and protect homes – Smart Water Magazine
- NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models – NOAA
- What’s the best way to expand the US electricity grid? – MIT
- Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Is Having a Renaissance – WIRED
Extremism/Terrorism
- Engineer Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Bombings of PG&E Transformers, Causing Property Damage and Widespread Power Outages – DOJ
- Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Murder, and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists – DOJ
- UK police charge two men with belonging to Hezbollah, attending terrorism training – Reuters
- U.S. Forces Protect the Homeland with Aggressive Pursuit of ISIS in Syria – U.S. Central Command
- What the Bondi Attack Reveals About Radicalisation, Extremism, and Counterterrorism Risk – Homeland Security Today