NORAD+Santa!
Posted on December 22nd, 2006 in Time Wasters | No Comments »
NORAD has rebooted their tracking systems this year again for Santa!
Don’t ask…just visit NORAD Tracks Santa
A little more from Mark….
NORAD has been tracking Santa for more than 50 years now. It all started when a department store set up a hotline for kids to call and talk to Santa. ( I forget the store, and I saw this on TV last week…..) The number of NORAD’s emergency phone was one digit off from the department store. So one one kid accidentally called NORAD, the operator played along. He “saw” Santa on the radar. And it’s continued ever since. The website is pretty good. There’s a map that updates worldwide, and last time I viewed it, last year, they bring in some “real” computer renderings of Santa captured “from Radar”, so you can even actually watch him flying for a minute or two of his route.