Ya, fricken clouds here too. Kept goin out to check, and by 2am there were sparse holes in the clouds, only a few bright stars visible, and could see them come and go as the clouds passed by. Went to bed, set alarm for 3:30, still fricken cloudy.
Too bad, wondering how it panned out. Still looking for reports. China is supposed to get quite a display tonite, but not the US. China gets all the astronomical fun this year
Oh well. I'll see a meteor storm some day.
In 2000 I saw a meteor explode in the sky (a bolide) making it like daylight for a second or so. Saw a rather large smoke trail leading TO the explosion, and a much smaller trail going away from it. That was WAY awesome!!
<EDIT> WOW steamwake!! are you a time traveller? I posted this AFTER I read your post, yet mine shows up BEFORE yours in the thread. odd