Paraphrase Each of the Following Short Excerpts and Include the Appropriate

Short Answer

Paraphrase each of the following short excerpts and include the appropriate parenthetical documentation. Use a signal phrase in each of the excerpts you paraphrase.
-"The increase in storm intensity in recent years has been tracked by the insurance industry which has been hit hard by recent disasters. Until the mid-1980s, it was widely thought that windstorms or hurricanes with insured losses exceeding one billion (thousand million) U.S.
dollars were only possible, if at all, in the United States." (from Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, by John Houghton, page 4)