Yikes! I know what happens next. The people who watch the meteors all go blind. . .and then the meteors deposit seeds that grow into trees . . . only the trees
eat the blind people . . AND . . .these trees can pull up their roots and chase people down. . . it will be horrible . . .
Wait, that's the Triffids not the Leonids . . .
Never mind.
I loved John Wyndham novels and stories when I was a kid. I think I read them all. It was a shock to realize as an adult that many of them were intended to convey bleeding-heart liberal pacifist pinko ideas. You know which one stands up the best to a reread? Consider Her Ways, the 1961 story about a future world where the men are all dead as a result of biological warfare experimentation gone wrong (a Wyndham favorite of course) and the women have formed a kind of hive-like Brave New World society run by feminist communists. It's an astonishing piece of prescience.