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Anybody set out last night to see if the "storm" occurred? Treasurer and I did, from about 10:30 until 1:30 We saw a total of about a dozen or so during that time, but the 'predicted storm' did not materialize. Two of them were quite large and of those I'm not sure that one of them was part of the comet trail. It was going the wrong direction, and too fast to be one of that brood. It was to the Northwest, and nearly what I would classify as a 'fireball'. It lit up, dimmed, and lit up again. One of the sighted ones was very strange indeed. It did not 'streak' at all ! Just a bright light that lit for about a half second, then out again. If we had not both seen it, I would have thought my eyes playing tricks. Had to be coming straight at us for that to happen. To be fair, they did say it would be an 'all or nothing' event, but if you weren't watching and it did happen, you would have missed it! Still a nice way to spend the evening relaxing in a lawn chair watching the sky. A nice cool breeze blowing, bats hovering over us collecting the bugs before they could bite us, tree frogs singing, quiet.....................................
