Where’s Santa? Track him online
Posted Dec 24, 2011 05:10:29 PM.
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For the 56th year, NORAD — the North American Air Defense System — is using its super-sophisticated technology to track Santa’s progress around the world.
You can go to noradsanta.org to follow the big guy’s progress as he delivers toys to children around the world.
Santa’s piling up even more than presents this year. Jolly Old Saint Nick’s trackers at NORAD say Santa Claus is breaking records on social media and by old-fashioned telephone this Christmas Eve.
Volunteers NORAD Tracks Santa at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado were fielding 4,000 calls an hour Saturday morning, on pace to break a record. Santa’s NORAD Facebook page exceeded 840,000 “likes” by midmorning.
The North American Aerospace Defence Command has been telling children about Santa’s whereabouts every year since 1955, when a newspaper ad invited kids to call Santa on a hotline. A typo led dozens of kids to call the command.
Around 15-million people logged on last year.
Watch video of trial run below (courtesy of NORAD/You Tube):
