But doesn't the Po Valley get flooded often because of all the snow and rain falling in the Alps?

In summer the Po river is dry because of less snow and even less rain. Now Milano is in the twentyseventh day of dry weather and temperatures above statistical averages
Tullio.

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It's really entertaining to watch Biathlon Skiing. Everything can happen.
Better weather in Ruhpolding, Germany today that yesterday postponed the Biathlon race for security reasons.
Biathlon WC Sprint
Ladies
1 Anastasija Kuzmina Slovakia
2 Lisa Vittozzi Italy
3 Hanna Öberg Sweden
Men
1 Johannes Thingnes Böe Norway
2 Tarjei Böe Norway, Yes, they are brothers.
3 Benedict Doll Germany

Lisa Vittozzi is now in the lead in Ladies Biathlon WC Sprint before Dorothea Wierer.
However in the Biathlon WC total, Dorothea leads before Lisa.
Brava Italia:)
Hanna Öberg is 7'th despite problem with sickness.

Cortina d'Ampezo Downhill ladies on shortened Tofane track because of fresh snow
1 Ramona Siebenhofer Austria
2 Ilka Stuhec Slovenia
3 Stephanie Venier Austria
4 Corinne Suter Switzerland
5 Romane Miradoli France
6 Francesca Marsaglia Italia
Tomorrow another downhill and Sunday a SuperG

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And Lindsey Vonn who are back after an injury only in 15th place...
I guess Ingemar Stenmark's record will last after all.
Not many races left in her last season.

Wengen combined event on the shortened Lauberhorn trail
1 Marco Schwarz Austria
1 Victor Muffat-Jaundet Frace
3 Alexis Pinturault France
4 Marco Caviezel Switzerland
Tomorrow full run, Sunday slalom

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Marcel Hircher, who doesn't compete in Alpine Combine, said some days ago that Marco is in a very good condition.
Perhaps a skier that can outcompete him:)

The Swiss TV which I read on Internet said that it was an astonishing result. Marco Schwarz is a good slalom and giant slalom skier. Probably Hirscher is right.
Tullio

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Downhill ladies Cortina on the full Tofane trail
1 Ramona Siebenhofer Austria
2 Nicole Schmidhofer Austria
3 Ilka Stuhec Slovenia
Felix Austria!
Cortina used to be Austria until 1918. Slovenia also belonged to Austria.

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Lauberhorn downhill at Wengen, Switzerland
1 Vincent Kriechmayr Austria
2 Beat Feuz Switzerland
3 Aleksander Aamodt Kilde Norway
4 Aksel Lund Svindal Norway
5 Bryce Bennett USA
6 Emanuele Buzzi Italia
7 Mauro Caviezel Switzerland
8 Christof Innerhofer Italia
9 Gilles Roulin Switzerland
10 Dominik Paris Italia
Buzzi falls after ending the race

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Emanuele Buzzi came 6th.
And unfortunatly hit the safety barrier after the finish line...
Most likely he hurt his knee badly.

SuperG Ladies Cortina
1 Mikaela Shriffin USA again for the 54th time
2 Tina Weirather Liechtenstein
3 Tamara Tippler Austria
4 Valerie Grenier Canada
5 Jasmine Flury Switzerland
6 Wendy Holdener Switzerland
Ilka Stuhec and Lindsey Vonn out like Nicol Delago

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Slalom men at Wengen
1 Clement Noel France
2 Manuel Feller Germany
3 Marcel Hirscher Austria
4 Henrik Kristoffersen Norway

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Lindsey Vonn didn't finished in Cortinas super-G.
Vonn's plan has previously been to make her last championship in the Ã…re World Cup in February. But now she fears that she may have made her last competition.
- It's just so much my body can handle, says an emotional Vonn after the competition according to AFP.
To the Swiss Blick , the American says that her knee is suffering too much.

Lindsey has passed the token to Mikaela, who will break the Ingemar records and is also a nice girl like Lindsey.
Tullio

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In Estonia, at Otepaa, Ivo Niskanen, Finland and Therese Johaug, Norway win the 15 km classic style for men and the 10 km for ladies in cross country skiing.

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Mikaela abstained from the initial downhill runs in Cortina and did not even run the training runs.
Still, she wins! And she also seems to be surprised:)
Veni, Vidi, Vici.

Since an old cathodic monitor to which I had attached a Windows 10 PC failed, I ordered a LCD monitor from HP and received it in a few days. It was dead on arrival. I complained to the HP Customer support by telephone and found myself talking with a Serbian girl speaking a perfect Italian. No surprise, since a Serbian aunt of mine spoke 9 languages. This is globalization. Then I had a mail from HP saying that they will bring me a new one in two days. It was made in China. This is also globalization.
Tullio

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Globalization:)
I have worked for Seimens, a big German multi-national company.
They said their concern (a type of business group common in Europe) have English as a common language.
Knowledge in English is even a requirement to get employed.
Well I guess it's different if you are German.
For instance some people came from Munich to Stockholm to hold a seminar with us.
In German of course. I think it was only three of us that understood anything about it.
The reason, they said, was that there are so many German expressions in the IT business. LOL.

Once at Istituto Sperimentale Metalli Leggeri in Novara came a Swedish professor to talk about alloys of two or more elements. He spoke good English. The Director of the Istituto asked me: do you understand? I said yes. The Director stopped the professor and said: doctor (my name) will translate. So I had to make an instant translation of a speech about thermodynamic variables and managed to survive. Once in a conference on aluminium alloys in Madrid I watched the poor girls translating the speakers faint one after the other. There are always two of them in a booth just in case.
Tullio
My following firm, SGS-now STMicroelectronics- belonged to the IRI-STET Group like SIT-Siemens.

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LOL.
Hint to the director of the institute and the audience of that speech/lecture.
A non-italian doesn't do it in Italian when talking science and applied science like metallurgy.
Nor Latin like they did about 300 hundred years ago.

I have studied metallurgy and one of the exams included describing a diagram, I think it was a phase diagram.
One problem though... It was from a Russian textbook.
The teachers giggled:)

Funny btw. "Leggeri" is called "legering" here.