(TLP:CLEAR) Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – February 5, 2026

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

• Northeast braces for coldest weekend of winter with snow, rapid freeze-up for some – AccuWeather
• Southern US enters a second week of biting cold and prolonged outages – AP
• San Francisco Bay Area rattled by series of early morning earthquakes – AP
• Active Tornado Season Expected in the US – Insurance Journal
• Anatomy of a heatwave: how a cyclone, humid air and atmospheric waves drove brutal heat in the southeast – Conversation
• Winter Warming: Fewer Cold Extremes, More Warm Extremes – Climate Central
• Do trees prevent landslides? What science says about roots, rainfall and stability  – Conversation

Operational Resilience

• Why Intelligent LiDAR Solutions are the Next Frontier in Security and Safety – Security Management Magazine
• LiDAR’s Dual Frontier: How Ubiquitous 3D Sensing is Transforming Security and Empowering Adversaries – Security Management Magazine
• NERC forecasts peak demand to rise 24% on new data center loads  – Utility Dive
• 2026 US power sector outlook – Utility Dive
• Transformer failure to blame for outage that left nearly 200,000 people without power, Xcel says – ABC 7
• Billions Of Dollars In Play As Communities Tackle Aging Water Infrastructure – Water Online
• How States Can Prepare for an Expanded Role in Disaster Aid – Domestic Preparedness
• Teen facing charges for setting more than a dozen wildfires in Carbon County – WFMZ

Extremism/Terrorism

• Long Beach man pleads guilty to backing ISIS, homemade bomb charges – KTLA
• Iraqi spy chief warns of reemerging threat from ISIS as its ranks swell – Washington Post
• US Capitol police report increase in threats for third year – WJLA
• Rising ISIS threats to US homeland drive AFRICOM airstrikes against terrorists in Somalia –  Fox News
• Iran’s Network Of Proxies ‘Activated’ As Possible War With US Looms – Radio Free Europe