Tornado Alley (PROG)

[12yearplan]

"There may be a time when redress may not be obtained. Till then, I shall recommend a legal, orderly, and prudent resentment".[8]
Good catch up with your post thanks, a bit more elaboration if you want - just reading the history of Roxham road and looks like Americans were the first refugees!. [I'm wondering now to what extent Joe didn't come up here not just to talk serious business like a united reply to Russia and China but to take a break from the bickering down there, lol]:
Most Americans hoped for a peaceful reconciliation but were forced to choose sides by the Patriots who took control nearly everywhere in the Thirteen Colonies in 1775–76.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution)
 
The Repugs will love this - guess where they settled?
Clinton County!,.. whaaahaha..
 
There had been scattered European settlement of the area through which Roxham Road runs by both British and French colonists throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, but the hamlet of Roxham only began to develop at the beginning of the 19th century with the emigration of American Loyalists who would not renounce their allegiance to the British crown after the Revolution ended in independence for the Thirteen Colonies
 
There's always something!, .. ;)
 
By 1838 the population along the road had grown enough that a small cemetery was established along it in the town of Champlain
 
By this time it was also, like other back roads crossing the border in the area, used by agents of the Underground Railroad to guide escaped enslaved Blacks to freedom—North Star Road, at the southern terminus of Roxham, is said to have gotten its name from the lore among escapees to look for Polaris in the night sky as a guide to which way was north.[40]
 
I once went for a couple beers late one afternoon
on xc skis thru the bush
in the dark (.. left later than planned.. her eyes were like O. Wilde's but bluer)
It's late so maybe I'll take this what looks like more direct route, snow was go-any-where firm
got lost for a while til i remembered seeing Orion's Belt and the pointy bit earlier in the day pointing back home - my compass.
a little weird crossing that river in the dark
women can kill.
[I don't see a belt I see an arrow, this photo shows the point (don't get lost!, try to keep up.. ;)]

 
. Canada barricaded all uncontrolled crossings on its side as part of security operations supporting the 1976 Summer Olympics, fearful that terrorists like those who had killed Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics could do something similar in Montreal, where the Games were held, and then quickly escape across the border.[4][44][45] During the 1980s, when illegal migration primarily took place from Canada into the U.S.,[46] the Border Patrol augmented this with electronic surveillance equipment.[47]
 
Safe Third Country Agreement
 
[i]After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Canada and the U.S. worked together to improve border security. Among many agreements signed was the Safe Third Country Agreement, (CUSTCA, more commonly just STCA) stipulating that refugees coming to either country must apply for asylum in the first one they reach. It was generally seen at the time it was signed in 2002 as being sought primarily by Canada, to prevent refugees from "asylum-shopping".[49][e] In 2004 it came into force and the amount of asylum applications to Canada began to drop;[53] three years later a Canadian Federal Court ruled the treaty unconstitutional, on the basis that U.S. law did not offer the same protections as Canada for applicants, but that decision was in turn overturned by an appeals court on procedural grounds.[54]
 
Anyhow, lots of history there and I'll let you know if Joe decides he's not coming back..
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxham_Road
 
Immigration fuels Canada's largest population growth of over 1 million
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65047436
 
US and Canada reach deal to reject asylum seekers
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65047438