(TLP:CLEAR) Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – October 9, 2025
Created: Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 13:10
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
- La Nina is back, but it’s weak. Will it still amp up the Atlantic hurricane season? – ABC News
- A Nor’easter Will Target the East Coast This Weekend – The Weather Channel
- Cold air to trigger frost, freeze across interior Northeast as autumn chill takes hold – AccuWeather
- As Tropical Storm Jerry churns in the Atlantic, Priscilla and a nor’easter threaten US with flooding – AP
- Phoenix, Grand Canyon National Park face flash flood threat due to surge of tropical moisture across Southwest – Fox Weather
- Weather service upgrades deadly tornado in North Dakota to an EF5, the nation’s first in 12 years – PBS
- Cost of Europe’s extreme weather doubled this decade – and could hit €126 billion by 2029 – Euro News
Operational Resilience
- Flood-prone Houston faces hard choices for handling too much water – Conversation
- How Digital Payments Infrastructure Increases Hurricane Preparedness – Water Online
- Affordable AI tool warns of water quality threats before they happen – Smart Water Magazine
- Intense rain, landslides and potholes everywhere: how climate change is trashing Australia’s roads – Conversation
- How AI Can Solve The “Silver Tsunami” And Support Small Water Utilities – Water Online
- New research highlights water strategy gap in U.S. utilities and industry – Water World Magazine
- PERSPECTIVE: Emergency Management Has Never Been More Indispensable – Homeland Security Today
- Police chiefs sound alarm over ‘disturbing rise in rhetoric,’ cite rising political threats – NBC News
- 29-year-old man accused of starting blaze that turned into destructive Palisades Fire – ABC 7 Los Angeles
Extremism/Terrorism
- Swatting Attacks and Nihilistic Violent Extremism: A Primer – Just Security
- Manchester synagogue killer ‘pledged allegiance to Islamic State’ during attack, police say – Sky News
- Third man charged in connection to attempted bombing of news vehicle in SLC – KSL-TV
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s would-be assassin sentenced to 8 years prison – ABC News
- Mapping Terrorist AI Use: Identifying Factors Behind a Relatively Slow Adoption Rate – Global Network on Extremism and Technology