(TLP:CLEAR) Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – July 24, 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

• Severe storms packing high winds to roar from Dakotas to Kansas, New England – AccuWeather
• Maps show U.S. heat advisories, high temperatures as heat dome moves east – CBS News
• Warning Issued About Hurricane Season as Experts Track New System – Newsweek
• Flood waters race through New Mexico community, prompting rescues – AP
• This is the summer of flooding across the US, and scientists know why – CNN
• Oregon’s Cram Fire nears 100K acres, now largest in the nation – Axios
• Over 1 million Michiganders still in some level of drought – M Live
• A weird lack of Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclones so far in 2025 – Yale Climate Connections

Operational Resilience

• Most Organizations Fail to Incorporate Security in Operational Resilience Planning. New Research Seeks to Change That – Security Management Magazine
• What Canada could learn from the tragic consequences of the Texas flash flood – Conversation
• U.S. socked with 15 billion-dollar weather disasters during the 1st half of 2025 – Yale Climate Connections
• State Defense Forces: The Untapped Backbone of Emergency Response – Domestic Preparedness
• PERSPECTIVE: Coordinating Civil Unrest Through Ground-Level Emergency Management Experience – Homeland Security Today
• Many Texas communities are dangerously unprepared for floods − lack of funding plays a big role – Conversation
• Feature Article: S&T Search and Rescue Tool Plays Swift Role in Recent Flood Response – DHS
• Helped by AI, man built bombs he planned to detonate in Manhattan, officials say – NBC News
• Man accused of setting fire to 11 NYPD vehicles is arrested and charged with arson – ABC News
• Man made bomb threats, got into armed standoff at Weston Hospital: State Police – WBOY (Weston, WV)

Extremism/Terrorism

• Member of Transnational Terrorist Group Charged with Soliciting the Murder of Federal Officials in Connection with Hit List – DOJ
• Lombard teen charged in alleged terror plot against Glendale Heights Islamic center – CBS News
• Isle of Wight man pleads guilty to explosives charges after over 150 IEDs found on his property – WVEC
• Tajik man sentenced to 5.5 years for recruiting for ISIS in Netherlands – NL Times
• From Canada to Finland, a US neo-Nazi fight club is rapidly spreading across the globe – Guardian