That tornedo was terrible, am glad your wife was Ok.
I was outside this am for a look and saw some beautiful meteors, so looking forward to next few mornings.
Seems our peak is on May 7th and 8th between 4 and 5am, but they are definitley around now, and the southern hemisphere get a LOT more than the northen hemisphere.
This from
http://home.mira.net/~reynella/skywatch/ssky.htm
The eta Aquarids are debris from Halleys comet. The radiant rises around 2 am May 6. The best time to see the eta-Aquarids is in the early morning of May 7 and 8, between around 4 and 5 am, when Aquarius is fairly high above the horizon. You may see between 1-3 meteors every 10 minutes at this time. The radiant of the shower is about five handspans up from the eastern horizon, and three handspans to the left of due east at 4 am.