Post by ScottC on Dec 22, 2005 9:37:12 GMT -5
Just in case you did not know about this site, here is a link to the NORAD site which tracks Santa Claus by radar on Christmas Eve. It is great fun for the kids, young & old alike.
www.noradsanta.org/en/default.php
A great read is the history of how this started 50 years ago this year. A brief excerpt is below:
www.noradsanta.org/en/default.php
A great read is the history of how this started 50 years ago this year. A brief excerpt is below:
This is the 50th Anniversary that NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa. The tradition began after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. store advertisement for children to call Santa on a special "hotline" included an inadvertently misprinted telephone number. Instead of Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief's operations "hotline." The Director of Operations, Colonel Harry Shoup, received the first "Santa" call on Christmas Eve 1955. Realizing what had happened, Colonel Shoup had his staff check radar data to see if there was any indication of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Indeed there were signs of Santa and children who called were given an update on Santa's position. Thus, the tradition was born.
