YorkshireLad6
Jan 18 2007, 7:45 pm
ALL schools are closed in Bavaria tomorrow, Friday, due to the storm. See official announcement (in German) here:
Freitag, 19. Januar fällt Unterricht vorsorglich ausQUOTE
Due to the impossibility of predicting what damaging effects the hurricane will have on schools and transport, all schools in Oberbayern will be closed for tuition on Friday January 19th, 2007.
The school management will be responsible, however, for caring for pupils who still come into school.
This governmental precautionary measure eases decisions for parents about the caring of children. The pupils are saved from making a difficult and dangerous journey to school.
According to forecasts from the German weather service, the climax of hurrican "Kyrill" is expected in Oberbayern between 18:00 hours and midnight. Winds of up to 120 km/h are expected, with gusts of between 140 and 170 km/h. Thereafter the storm will gradually abate.
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gideon
Jan 18 2007, 7:49 pm
ohhh Oscar's just started celebrating opposite me. We'll wait and see tommorrow.
YorkshireLad6
Jan 18 2007, 7:56 pm
Nothing to "wait and see" for. Decision has been made.
Renia
Jan 18 2007, 7:57 pm
Does that mean kindergarten too?
LottaRaty
Jan 18 2007, 7:58 pm
Haha, thats awesome. Just like they close schools in England if theres a little snow because they can't open the doors!!
For some reason I can't take this storm that seriously...
gideon
Jan 18 2007, 8:03 pm
Well they did say those who turn up will be looked after. So we"ll wait and see. So far this wind isn't anything i haven't had on the east coast. so I may send Oscar anyway.
DDBug
Jan 18 2007, 8:07 pm
I am NOT telling my kids that. I just now got them into bed.
Renia
Jan 18 2007, 8:12 pm
In Australia we could sometimes stay home if the temperature exceeded 40C...
Any way of finding out if Baden Württenburg will do the same?
DDBug
Jan 18 2007, 8:19 pm
In Wyoming they sent us home early when it dropped below -40° ...
ok, with wind chill factor, but it still sucked. Why couldn't they keep us there in the warm safe non-windy school until our parents could pick us up instead of making us walk, idiots.
leeza
Jan 18 2007, 8:21 pm
I haven't heard anything from my boy's Kindergarten. We live in a village outside of Munich. Does this apply, do you think? Or are Kindergartens a different story? I can't really read the German provided on the link.
EDIT: @DDBug - yeah, the same in Kansas. But they would send us home on the busses that would inevitably get stuck in the drifts and them we'd be freezing in the bus for 2 hours until we got dug out. Fecking idiots, the whole midwestern lot.
Renia
Jan 18 2007, 8:23 pm
The link doesn't mention kindergartens specifically...so I don't know if kindergarten kids are incuded as being school kids?
leeza
Jan 18 2007, 8:25 pm
Well, Kindergartens are generally open for holiday periods when most schools are closed (I guess so parents can work.) So not sure if it applies for KG too... I guess I'll know when I turn up at the KG door tomorrow.
Allershausen
Jan 18 2007, 8:25 pm
QUOTE (LottaRaty @ Jan 18 2007, 7:58 pm)
Haha, thats awesome. Just like they close schools in England if theres a little snow because they can't open the doors!!
For some reason I can't take this storm that seriously...
Well it's already killed 2 people, a 2 year old and an older guy.
Storm deaths
DDBug
Jan 18 2007, 8:53 pm
I've "heard" that the kindergardens are not affected by the closure. But I will not even be making the effort to take my youngest to kiga since the oldest will be home from school anyway and the little one's best friend is also not going to kiga.
So - who wants to babysit all the tt kids tomorrow!
Carm
Jan 18 2007, 8:54 pm
its wind ffs! I don't understand the panic?
There is no rain, no snow, no hail, so what is the deal. Closing the schools seems a little knee jerk.
@Carm, you ain't in Canada anymore.
(coming from a Mainer, who knows Nor'easter)
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Carm
Jan 18 2007, 9:01 pm
well, everyone is running around like its the end of the world... just annoying as hell.
in the Prairies schools were only closed when we had a blizzard (lots of snow and strong wind). We still had to go in the cold, just had indoor recess instead. Actually, in all my years of living there School was closed once (I was in Uni already) we had over 2 m of snow dump in 20 hours, and took about 3 days to dig us out, Nov 6th/86.
Allershausen
Jan 18 2007, 9:14 pm
The reason given is that they cannot be sure what damage will be done to the school during the night, so rather than have hundreds of kids turning up to a school with no roof, they've decided it would be easier to let them stay at home. Seems a bit over the top to me. I can't actually remember my school ever being closed due to weather conditions, but we had it tough! Youngsters today, they don't know they're born!
Schools closed -Antenne Bayern
schools were also closed the day after the heavy storms in 1990 (Vivian and Wiebke if anyone remembers). and after the 1984 hail.
FranB
Jan 18 2007, 9:17 pm
I agree with Carm - the whole thing is over the topi - try living in Cape Town or Melbourne where strong wind is the norm... they don't close places there due to wind... I also find it fascinating that none of the weather sites I have accessed on the web have given any warning of bad weather in southern Germany... maybe I'm reading the wrong pages... sure its windy but this panic seems crazy... Looking at England it seems like they have really borne the brunt of the storm.
DDBug
Jan 18 2007, 9:20 pm
Yes, but in some places the buildings are built with these storms in mind. The buildings here weren't.
Carm
Jan 18 2007, 9:21 pm
then maybe we shouldn't even be at home then
I hope thay don't close the pubs!
It's better to be over the top than needlessly adding to the toll:
At least 16 people die across EuropeQUOTE
Heavy rains and hurricane-force winds claim at least 16 lives in northern Europe, with Britain and Germany worst hit.
QUOTE
Britain was the worst hit with eight people killed as rain and gales of up to 70mph (112km/h) swept the country. (...)
In Bavaria, a 73-year-old man was killed when he was struck by debris. In Munich, an 18-month-old child died after being crushed by a door that blew off its hinges.
Three people were killed by falling trees in the Netherlands, and one person was killed the same way in Roubaix, France. A 30-year-old man was also killed in a motoring accident in the Somme.
FranB
Jan 18 2007, 9:42 pm
many of the houses in Australia are built of wood - they blow away, burn easily, etc...(remember the story of the three little pigs...?) yet they still build them in places that are likely to suffer both... always wondered how so many remain standing... Certainly feel a load safer here in this old brick building in the city that survived a war - hope I'm not kidding myself
englishrose
Jan 18 2007, 10:30 pm
Hi,
I was just wondering if Bavarian schools are open tomorrow with all the storms. We live in Windach which is in Landberg am Lech. Does any one have any information?
Thanks in anticipation.
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leeza
Jan 18 2007, 10:32 pm
englishrose
Jan 18 2007, 10:47 pm
Thanks for the replies re the schools being closed tomorrow...hurray I can have a lay-in!! Does anyone know if kindergartens are open tomorrow?
Thanks again in anticipation
sarabyrd
Jan 18 2007, 11:11 pm
I think the kindergärten will decide individually as they are carried by various organizations and not centrally controlled like the schools.
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