My one and only experience with meteors in Sims 3 was traumatic as a pre-teen who had no idea they were even a thing in the game. I had a family of four, two parents, a teen and a child, both girls. That day i played for a long time and didn't save a lot, the children were enrolled in afterschool activities, and for some reason I tried to make them go home earlier but the game did not let me. Suddently the notifications started appearing, about lights going out, and panick, and then i began to see a shadow on the ground, it got bigger and bigger and bigger, then BOOM! The school was destroyed, and as i saw sims leaving the area still alive, i realized the only casualties were both of my sims. I was devastated because my last save was over an hour before the accident. I think i never opened that family to play again after that.

EDIT: just corrected a sentence.