A few words from the Editor: Every December, R&R wraps up the calendar year with a Year in Review. I am here to sum it up for you in one word: Coronavirus. This was the year of a multitude of unknowns. Yet, per usual, restorers put on their boots and got to work. The virus wasn’t the only challenge. According to the National Centers for Environmental Information, “the first nine months of 2020 ties the annual record for 16 events that occurred in 2011 and 2017.” Additionally, this is the sixth year in a row in which the U.S. has seen 10 or more billion-dollar weather-related disasters. As of Nov. 17, here is just a snippet of some of the weather events in the U.S. this calendar year:

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