Serendipita

Diese Woche in der Zeit:
Internet: Leben im Netz. “Viele reden von Web 2.0. Aber noch haben nicht alle bemerkt, wie ein neues Medium die Welt verändert.” Von Gero von Randow.

Bildung: Hamburger Modell. “Die CDU in der Hansestadt verabschiedet sich vom dreigliedrigen Schulsystem. Es soll nur noch Gymnasien und Stadteilschulen geben. Ein Vorbild für Deutschland?” Von Thomas Kerstan.
Dazu:

• Schulstudie LAU. “Hamburg wagt den Leistungsvergleich mit Baden-Württemberg”.
• Mit Abstand das intelligenteste Konzept. “Entsteht im Norden das Schulschlaraffenland? Die Hamburger CDU will kleine Klassen, beste Ausstattung und nur noch zwei Schulfomen. Ein Gespräch mit dem Bildungshistoriker Heinz-Elmar Tenorth.”
• Was wird aus den Kindern? “Der Bildungsforscher Rainer Lehmann testete neun Jahre lang die Leistungen Hamburger Schüler. Ein Bilanzgespräch.”

Well, the power went out less than five minutes after my posting last night, came back one for a few minutes half an hour later but than went back out again. It turns out that there’s not much to do without power. Reading by candlelight is not much fun, so we watched a movie on André’s laptop (which had a full battery) and went to bed early. We woke up around 11:30 pm when the power – and the lights – went back on.

Right now, it’s still quite windy, and it has just started to rain. It’s not light outside yet, but it seems like we made it through the storm okay. The trees are still standing, the house wasn’t damaged, and the only thing left to do seems to be setting the clocks on some appliances.

A storm warning for the entire country has been issued here in Germany, even an extreme storm warning for some parts.

“Der Deutsche Wetterdienst (DWD) gibt wegen des verheerenden Sturms für die Mittelgebirge, Teile der Bundesländer Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Thüringen, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Rheinland-Pfalz und das Saarland eine extreme Unwetterwarnung heraus. Für die anderen Regionen galt eine Unwetterwarnung.” (Quelle: Spiegel online)

Take a look at this map at the Deutsche Wetterdienst: Warnsituation.

It has been very windy here since last night, but not too bad. Even though the storm had not started in earnest yet, we ended classes early today like many other schools so the kids were able to go home safely. When I came home from school later in ther afternoon (there’s a lot of extra work at school at the moment because of the imminent report cards), two neighbouring towns had power outages and almost noone was out on the roads. As you can see, we still have electricity, but the light already flickered a few times…

But I’m not really worried that anything really serious could happen. There are no big old trees that could fall onto our house, so we should be quite safe here.