Women Downhill at Altenmarkt
1 Christine Scheyer Austria
2 Tina Weirather Liechtenstein
3 Jacqueline Wiles USA
4 Lara Gut Switzerland
5 Ilha Stuhec Slovenia
6 Johanna Schnarf Italia
Nadia Fanchini and Edith Miklos fall in trial run, Viktoria Rebensburg falls in race
Lindsey Vonn is twelth

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Men slalom Wengen
1 Henrik Kristoffersen Norway
2 Marcel Hirscher Austria
3 Felix Neureuther Germany
Manfred Moelgg is eighth

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Nadia Fanchini has a broken arm and will probably miss the World Championship next month. Lindsey is thirteenth in a race where standings changed very frequently, see the unexpected first place of Christine Scheyer and the third place of American Jacqueline Wiles.
Tullio

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Sunny day in Wengen today.
Kristoffersen smiled.
And Hirscher as well when asked if he is worried about Kristoffersen's victories:)

Tre scosse sismiche in Abruzzo dalle 10.26 alle 11.15, magnitudo 5.4,5.1 e 5.6. La situazione e' peggiorata da una fitta nevicata, fino a 2 metri di neve. Molti abitanti vorrebbero fuggire dalle case ma le strade sono inagibili e manca l'elettricita'. Si attende l'intervento dell'esercito. Ad Amatrice e' crollato il campanile di Sant'Agostino, che era stato lesionato dal terremoto del 24 agosto.
Tullio

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Still another shock at 13.33 UTC. People are desperate.
Tullioi

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Only two hours ago there was another one M 5.1

Currently, the snow is a bigger problem than earthquakes, highlights several mayors to RAI.
Amatrice is also affected by the worst snowstorm that has been in 50 years.
Several roofs have already collapsed and roads have been blocked because of avalanches.
Forecasts indicate continued intense snowfalls for another 48 hours.

Hotel Rigopiano in Comune Farindola, Pescara Province, hit by a snowslide which shifted it by 10 meters, according to rescuers. Two people saved, other 28 missing. The hotel is under the Gran Sasso Mountain. I am wondering about the possible effects of the seismic shocks in the delicate instrumentation of the Gran Sasso National Laboratories looking for dark matter (none found so far in the LUX expertiment).
Tullio

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Hotel Rigopiano in Comune Farindola, Pescara Province, hit by a snowslide which shifted it by 10 meters, according to rescuers. Two people saved, other 28 missing. The hotel is under the Gran Sasso Mountain. I am wondering about the possible effects of the seismic shocks in the delicate instrumentation of the Gran Sasso National Laboratories looking for dark matter (none found so far in the LUX expertiment).
Tullio

Hotel Rigopiano...

The Gran Sasso National Laboratories are much more safe underground.

A quake can start avalanches if it coincides with a snowfall. This has happened in the Langtang valley in the Himalaya and probably happened also in Abruzzo. The first rescuers arrived on skis at 4 AM, since cars and trucks were blocked at 9 km and helicopters could not fly at night in a snowstorm. It looks like there are no other survivors except the first two who had exited from the hotel to smoke a cigarette and repaired in their car.

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Hotel Rigopiano as it was...
https://youtu.be/C8W_KbMZ3IY
Today...
http://www.thelocal.it/20170119/many-dead-avalanche-italian-hotel-abruzzo-earthquake

And of course all the people living in the region that have to suffer not only from snowstorms but earthquakes on the top of that.

Yesterday, Amatrice's mayor Sergio Pirozzi appealed for help from authorities in clearing snow from roads. Pirozzi said: "The emergency situation is not the earthquake, but the snow."

He cursed his region's bad luck, saying: "We haven't had snow like this in 70 years. What did we do wrong?"

It looks like an extreme event caused by global warming. 2016 was the warmest year on record according to NASA.
Tullio

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Idioms like this comes to mind.
En olycka kommer sällan ensam - When it rains, it pours.
Or "Everything comes in threes."
What's next in Italy?
A hurricane, a flood, or a wildfire?

Or perhaps...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AIfaBYoLbE

When things get bad, Italians forget their divisions. Three hundred trained rescuers have left Milano and other Lombardy towns armed with anti-snow equipment from Linate and Malpensa airports and rescue helicopters. The main task is that of opening mountain roads to ambulances and trucks loaded with food.

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When things get bad, Italians forget their divisions. Three hundred trained rescuers have left Milano and other Lombardy towns armed with anti-snow equipment from Linate and Malpensa airports and rescue helicopters. The main task is that of opening mountain roads to ambulances and trucks loaded with food.

Yes.
And
​"Our thoughts go to people that were hit by another earthquake, again in the same region. At that time, we offered our solidarity and help with building a hospital in Amatrice. I can imagine how horrible it is, and if Italy needs assistance and support we will stand by it," Merkel said in Berlin.

About to walk the dog.
My thoughts go to people that is stucked in their homes but not knowing if they have a home tomorrow...

'Many dead' after avalanche hits spa hotel in Italy

Up to 30 people are feared to have died after an avalanche believed to have been triggered by an earthquake hit a spa hotel in Italy.


:-)

Thoughts an prayers go out to the victims and families.

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Kitzbuehel SuperG
1 Matthew Mayer Austria
2 Christof Innerhofer Italia
3 Beat Feuz Switzerland
4 Alexander Aamodt Kilde Norway

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Eight people found alive in the wreckage of Hotel Rigopiano, including two children! Rescuers are excavating.
Tullio

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E' morto Spiro Dalla Porta Xidias, scrittore di montagna e alpi nista. Stava per raggiungere i 100 anni ma non ce l'ha fatta. RIP
Tullio

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