Lake effect. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
It occurs to me that all that ‘cold’ that used to hit north-central and north-east America is now going to hit the eastern Atlantic. Which, eventually, would start to freeze, yes?
After some time, wouldn’t we get an ice bridge form from, say, Newfoundland over to Ireland?
Wow! This of the new sports records waiting to be set! Fastest snowshoeing time! Fastest skating crossing! The ultimate dog sled race! Cross-ocean skiing? Heck, we could probably get a big chunk of change towards the construction costs by selling coverage rights to CBS sports!
:: metaphorically pats The Scrivener’s head ::
Suuure… Just go on thinking that Canadian radio is bad.
I’ll be snickering at the next ten threads that complain about Clear Channel owning 110% of the stations in someone’s home town and eliminating the last good free-form rock station in favour of lip-synched Spanish klezmer music or something, because, you know, that’s what the advertisers want, and who cares about the music anyways… 
You do realize that there are a bunch of american citys , that are north of the continous border don’t ya.
Or do we get those in trade , special economic zones.
Declan
As long as you take Detroit along with anything else.
2 words: Ashley Simpson
It’s Saturday morning, I’m bored.
From here, the total distance of the land border is as follows:
Maine 611m
New Hampshire 58m
Vermont 90m
New York 445m
Penn 42m
Ohio 146m
Michigan 721m
Minnesota 547m
North Dakota 310m
Montana 545m
Idaho 45m
Washington 427m
Total: 3987m
Or, 21,051,360’ (feet)
So, if we build this wall to a height of 40,000 feet, then we have a total area of 842,054,400,000 square feet.
Let’s pick a brick. I’ve decided on red brick for the wall, because I like red brick. It’s the Chicagoan in me. Anyway, I think I’ve settled on a Berwick Blend Red Brick (3-5/8"D x 2-1/4"H x 8"L)
It looks nice, trust me. So, if we add to those dimensions 1/2" for mortar, we get a height of 2.75"H x 8.5"L. I’m not a mason, so correct away as required. That’s a total area of 23.375" or 1.94’
842,054,400,000 square feet /1.94’ means you’ll need 434,048,659,793.81 bricks. And a lot of mortar - I’m not even going there.
Plus, as the US wants the wall, the US is building the wall. You know what that means: Union labor. So the costs and completion times are unfigureoutable.
But what about the migration of birds and the regal Monarch butterfly?
You’re all silly. All you need for a wind fence is a farmer from Southern Alberta who lives on the edge of a coulee. He’ll figure it out soon enough.
Oh yee of little faith, 434,048,659,793 bricks seems like a big number to you doesn’t it? Well consider that there are around 6,000,000,000 people in the world. If we force all of those people to “donate” 72 bricks each then that would provide all that is necessary. Obviously, not every person will be able to do it so will do it by country and just say the average for that country will have to be 72 bricks per person. What if they don’t want to comply? Well, that is why we have spent all that money on nuclear weapons.
We will fly them over on specially fitted 747’s. No first-class though.
Birds and butterflys… pffft. We’re talking about our comfort here, people.
I’ll just phone in our order to the good folks at The Belden Brick Company. They may consider the the “Standard” Berwick Blend, but the “Modular” is in stock! It’s a little shorter, and we’ll need a few more, but hey - hurdles are a part of progress.
Who’s got a credit card I can use?
The really cool part about this idea is that the fans could be powered by wind turbines driven by that self-same Canadian wind. So the whole thing operates for free!
I’ve read that Denmark has laid claim to the North Pole while Canada on watch duty was snoozing.
Anyway, I figured the brisk cold air from the north was necessary to air out the USA. 
Hah! Build your wall, you fools. You cannot stop our evil plans! Bwahahahahaha! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Actually, Canada flexed its muscles by doing some destroyer exercises around the contested spot. We’re learning from you, America ;)!
Yeah, but you didn’t catch the defector who noticed you Canadians were snoozing at the switch and phoned the Danes. Agent Triple-Ho-7 himself…
O 291619Z JAN 05
FM OFFICE OF STRATEGIC WEATHER ENHANCEMENT ACTION TEAM (SWEAT)
TO CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF//CJCS//
BT
SECRET //N01710//
SUBJ: IMPLEMENTATION OF OPERATION “IMMENSE MAN MADE AIR DAM” (IM MAD)
A. REPORT DATED 21DEC04 ON STRAINED US/CANADIAN RELATIONS DUE TO
WEATHER(TS)
- BACKGROUND: AS OUTLINED IN REF. (A), THE RELATIONS BETWEEN CANADA
(CA) AND THE U.S. (US) HAVE BEEN SEVERELY STRAINED DUE ARCTIC AIR
MASSES WHICH ARRIVE US FROM CA. IT IS HAS BEEN REPORTED BY INTEL
SOURCES THAT THIS ACTIVITY IS AN INTENTIONAL, ON GOING OPERATION BY
CA AUTHORITIES, IN AN ATTEMPT TO IMPROVE CA DOMESTIC WEATHER FROM
“MISERABLE” TO “EH”. - DISCUSSION: INTEL SOURCES ARE REPORTING THAT EFFORTS TOWARDS THIS END
ARE INCREASING. CANADIAN CITIZENS HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED TO SPEED UP THE
FREQUENCY WITH WHICH COLD AIR MASSES ENTER US AIRSPACE (NFI). IT IS NOW
BELIEVED THAT THEY KNOW THAT WE KNOW, AND VICE-VERSA. - TASKING: UPON COMPLETION OF OPERATION “BIG DIG” IN BOSTON, BUT NO LATER
THAN 2015, IMMEDIATELY RE-DEPLOY ALL CONSTRUCTION/CONTRACTOR
ASSETS IN SUPPORT OF OP “IM MAD”. - DIRECTOR, SWEAT TEAM SENDS.
BT
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Agent K! Ixnay on the illingspay the eansbay!
Can’t we just genetically engineer a wall of giant sunflowers?
Awwwww… Pretty.