{"id":1785946,"date":"2022-12-24T14:33:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T19:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785946"},"modified":"2022-12-24T14:33:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T19:33:21","slug":"santa-watchers-panic-as-norads-santa-tracker-crashes-early-christmas-eve-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/santa-watchers-panic-as-norads-santa-tracker-crashes-early-christmas-eve-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Watchers Panic As NORAD\u2019s \u2018Santa Tracker\u2019 Crashes Early Christmas Eve Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsanta-watchers-panic-as-norads-santa-tracker-crashes-early-christmas-eve-morning%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785946&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Holiday watchers were thrown into a panic Saturday morning as the famous NORAD \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noradsanta.org\/en\/map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Tracker<\/a>\u201d website crashed.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail reported that the site was down at around 6:21 a.m. EST Saturday morning, and was down for less than 90 minutes. The brief outage sent social media users into a frenzy as they were unable to enjoy a cherished holiday pastime. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has been \u201ctracking\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/santa-claus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Claus<\/a>\u2018 progress delivering presents around the world since 1955.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh no! The trusty [NORAD] Santa tracker has crashed as technology goes on the blink,\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11571671\/NORAD-Santa-Tracker-LIVE-Follow-Father-Christmas-flies-world.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a> reported. \u201cWe\u2019re not sure what this means for Father Christmas, but hopefully it\u2019s a technical error only and he\u2019s still out there delivering presents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Screenshots from the NORAD website at the time showed a blank blue screen with no information on Santa\u2019s location. The Daily Mail speculated at the time that the interruption could have been caused by blizzard conditions from the colossal \u201cbomb cyclone\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/once-in-a-generation-winter-storm-expected-to-affect-most-of-u-s-midwest-likely-to-be-hardest-hit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">winter storm<\/a> that blanketed most of the United States this week, since the Santa Tracker uses data from American satellites.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the outage, Santa watchers panicked on Twitter, scrambling to come up with explanations for the young children in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NORAD santa tracker website has crashed and i have no clue how i\u2019m going to explain this to the kiddos when they wake back up for the day,\u201d one user wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs the NORAD Santa tracker website\/app down for anyone else?,\u201d asked another. \u201cSeems like of all the days, today would be fairly important to be running\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is Santa?,\u201d another user tweeted. \u201cNORAD can you please get it back up because I NEED to know where Santa is and I might just have to go to either Google SANTA tracker [or] Flightradar24 SANTA1 flight?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other users had more fun with it, and several blamed the outage on recent events besides the winter weather blast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NORAD Santa Tracker is down. Our defense system is down,\u201d one user joked. \u201cAn attack on American soil is imminent. Hide your kids, hide your wife. We have hours left until the fat man and his animals invade our shores.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to worry everyone but\u2026 Norad\u2019s Santa Tracker is down,\u201d one user wrote, before taking several swipes at ELon Musk\u2019s takeover of Twitter. \u201cWhat\u2019s going on? Has Elon banned live sharing of Santa\u2019s \u2018assassination coordinates?\u2019 Have the reindeer demanded WFH this year?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorad santa tracker isn\u2019t working, they must\u2019ve given all the money for that to Ukraine this year,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n<p>NORAD restored the site at around 7:30 A.M. EST. \u201cThank you for your patience!\u201d NORAD wrote on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/noradsanta\/posts\/pfbid01PgJ2BRoYjqfNTx8dJeMkJQEFzSg61wncrh9c4RV9XNr7RYzR1YpmMaVs3HePNQFl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> page. \u201cWe are up and running! (Santa has been up for hours.)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of the publication of this piece, Santa has already delivered more than 2.5 billion presents, and is en route to Madagascar.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force began \u201ctracking\u201d St. Nick\u2019s progress on his annual journey Christmas Even in 1955, when a child, looking to call Santa Claus through a number in a Sears catalog, accidentally dialed the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Center. The tradition has been repeated every year since; NORAD took over the tracker in 1958.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holiday watchers were thrown into a panic Saturday morning as the famous NORAD \u201cSanta Tracker\u201d website crashed. The Daily Mail reported that the site was down at around 6:21 a.m. EST Saturday morning, and was down for less than 90 minutes. 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