An evening with tornadoes with a chance of Sigur Rós

Sigur Rós put on an amazing show last night in Omaha at the Orpheum. It ALMOST didn't happen. The entire area was surrounded with tornado warnings and sirens.

We arrived in the Old Market at around 6 p.m., plenty of time to grab some grub and beverage, right? Well we stopped in Zio's Pizza to fuel up. They were busy, but not THAT busy. It took us 40-odd minutes to get our drinks after we ordered them. Then another 40-ish minutes before we got our food. Great...we're going to be late for the show. Finally, at 7:30 we were able to chow down quickly and pay our tabs with enough time to walk to the venue and find our seats before the show started at 8 p.m.

We were well aware of some severe weather in the area, but weren't quite sure where we were in comparison to the storms. We exited Zio's to find the sky filled with black clouds. The sirens were blaring and the air was still. It was very eerie.


We made it to the Orpheum right before it started raining and they quickly pointed us to the direction of the basement. Do not pass go, do not collect any drinks or merch.

It was tropical sauna-like in the basement, which was very uncomfortable. They said you can go to the basement, or go outside, nothing in between. We chose the basement but many people decided to brave the storm outside.

We were in the basement for a good 30-40 minutes, then they let us upstairs to pick up Will Call tickets. We then had to wait to enter the Theatre until they had everything set up (30 minutes). Finally, doors open around 9, and show begins with Sigur Rós taking the stage at 10 p.m. It was amazing and well worth the excitement and long, hot, sweaty, scary wait.



We made it back to Sioux Falls safely around 3 a.m. Just enough time to get a few hours of sleep before I had to be up for work today. Hurray!