By Walt Hickey Disastrous The year 2020 will go down as a rough one on a couple of different levels, and a new report from NOAA bolsters that rep as a disastrous year even further: per the agency, 2020 saw 22 separate events that caused $1 billion or more in damages in the United States, wiping out the record held by 2011 and 2017, when 16 billion-dollar disasters occurred. These events included seven hurricanes and 13 severe storms as well as tornadoes. The wildfires that swept the west and the drought were each considered a distinct event. Overall, those disasters caused