No matter where you are – NORAD tracks Santa
This post unashamedly has absolutely nothing to do with Emigrating to New Zealand – but if you have never seen NORAD Tracks Santa – then you should take a look. (And not just if you have kids!)
From NORAD themselves:
Why we track Santa
For more than 50 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa’s Christmas Eve flight.
The tradition began in 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement for children to call Santa misprinted the telephone number. Instead of reaching Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief’s operations “hotline.” The Director of Operations at the time, Colonel Harry Shoup, had his staff check the radar for indications of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Children who called were given updates on his location, and a tradition was born.
In 1958, the governments of Canada and the United States created a bi-national air defense command for North America called the North American Aerospace Defense Command, also known as NORAD, which then took on the tradition of tracking Santa.
Since that time, NORAD men, women, family and friends have selflessly volunteered their time to personally respond to Christmas Eve phone calls and emails from children. In addition, we now track Santa using the internet. Last year, millions of people who wanted to know Santa’s whereabouts visited the NORAD Tracks Santa website.
Finally, media from all over the world rely on NORAD as a trusted source to provide Christmas Eve updates on Santa’s journey.
How absolutely cool is this?
We spent a few merry hours last Christmas glued to the Internet watching as the reports came in form around the world. It was particularly great as for the first time on our emigrating journey, we were apart from the rest of my family at Christmas. So to be able to “Track Santa” as he gets to where the rest of your family are is actually an amazing thing. Probably especially for kids – but hey – there’s no age limit!
Anyway – some scenes from Santa’s journey last year coutesy of the NORAD trackers.
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