Nation ‘Damaging winds’ and ‘impressive downpours’: Storms threaten more than 80 million on East Coast August 7, 2023 Susan Miller and Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY Comments Off on ‘Damaging winds’ and ‘impressive downpours’: Storms threaten more than 80 million on East Coast A wicked weather system had a large chunk of the Eastern Seaboard in its crosshairs Monday in a summer of relentless heat and pounding storms.