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Whoa!
I was going outside, a bit early for a change, for the usual morning routine, when BAM! I really bright meteor, streaking down the sky in the southwest, towards the south.
I would say it was magnitude -2, maybe brighter. A blueish-white, with a trail, and some chunky debris. It probably traversed about 30 degrees (3 fist widths?) in about a second or two.
05:40:19 (?) CDT
Trying to plot it out in Stellarium, I would say it started around 47 Eri, and went to the bottom corner of Lepus (epsilon Lep?).
When I came back inside, I noticed the weather was on KTTC, with the camera going in the background. Unfortunately, if it was live, it was aimed too far to the east. π