I went out to see if it was a good show. I am a photographer and love to do night shots. Did not see a single meteor, but did get a nice view of the space station going over with the shuttle docked to it. It was definitely brighter than on a typical night.
A few months ago (don't remember when, but there was still snow on the ground, so that rules out the month of August here in northern MN) we got to see the space station fly overhead and rotate its solar panels. They called it an "irredium flare." It got exceptionally bright for about 5 seconds due to the light being delfected at us as the panels rotated. Pretty cool!
For anyone interested in astronomy stuff, here is a cool site I check every day. Always nice pics and some cool information,
daily astronomy picture link