(TLP:CLEAR) Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – June 19, 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 include tornado risk in central, eastern US – AccuWeather
• Flooding and rock slides close heavily damaged I-40 section in Smoky Mountains – AP
• As flash floods in West Virginia kill at least 8, Gov. Morrisey aims to rally residents during clean-up – CBS News
• What we know about the devastating San Antonio floods that killed 13 people – KSAT
• Evacuations ordered in New Mexico as wildfires scorch over 80,000 acres – USA Today
• Brush fire forces evacuation of 50 Maui residents as other wildfires burn in continental US – Guardian
• Heat dome will blanket much of the US, with worrisome temperatures in Midwest – AP
• Here’s why Hurricane Erick is quickly strengthening into dangerous storm – AP

Operational Resilience

• Hurricane Readiness Resources for Emergency Managers – FEMA
• Cable theft causes major rail disruption – BBC
• Can NOAA predict the next flood? New research shows promise – NOAA
• Wildfire Presponse: Closing the Gap with Mitigation – Domestic Preparedness
• Scanning The Snow From The Sky – Water Online
• Storm damage costs are often a mystery – that’s a problem for understanding extreme weather risk – Conversation
• Fire Ready?: White paper finds many U.S. power utilities unprepared for wildfire risk – Stanford
• We design cities and buildings for earthquakes and floods — we need to do the same for wildfires – Conversation
• Why better monitoring of US transformers is a national security imperative – Utility Dive
• Chemical leak prompts entire Ohio town to be evacuated – The Independent
• As disasters loom, emergency managers say they aren’t counting on FEMA – Washington Post
• Russia recruits elderly in covert sabotage campaign across Ukraine and Europe – Euromaidan Press

Extremism/Terrorism

• Afghan National Pleads Guilty to Plotting Election Day Terror Attack in the United States – DOJ
• In wake of Minnesota lawmaker shootings, experts warn political violence has been on the rise in U.S. – CBS News
• CENTCOM eliminates ISIS plotter responsible for threatening US citizens, partners and civilians – Fox News
• Man with ties to al-Qaeda charged with threatening attack in Montreal – CBC News
• Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event – Guardian
• Extremist Content Online: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Calls for the Killing of American Leaders, Praises Killing of Two Israeli Embassy Employees in Washington, D.C. – Counter Extremism Project
• Symbols of the System: Why Accelerationists Target Law Enforcement – Accelerationism Research Consortium