<p>Holiday watchers were thrown into a panic Saturday morning as the famous NORAD &#8220;<a href="https://www.noradsanta.org/en/map" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Santa Tracker</a>&#8221; website crashed.</p>
<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 &#8220;tracking&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/santa-claus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Santa Claus</a>&#8216; progress delivering presents around the world since 1955.</p>
<p>&#8220;Oh no! The trusty [NORAD] Santa tracker has crashed as technology goes on the blink,&#8221; 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. &#8220;We&#8217;re not sure what this means for Father Christmas, but hopefully it&#8217;s a technical error only and he&#8217;s still out there delivering presents.&#8221;</p>
<p>Screenshots from the NORAD website at the time showed a blank blue screen with no information on Santa&#8217;s location. The Daily Mail speculated at the time that the interruption could have been caused by blizzard conditions from the colossal &#8220;bomb cyclone&#8221; <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>
<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>
<p>&#8220;The NORAD santa tracker website has crashed and i have no clue how i’m going to explain this to the kiddos when they wake back up for the day,&#8221; one user wrote.</p>
<p>&#8220;Is the NORAD Santa tracker website/app down for anyone else?,&#8221; asked another. &#8220;Seems like of all the days, today would be fairly important to be running&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Where is Santa?,&#8221; another user tweeted. &#8220;NORAD 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?&#8221;</p>
<p>Other users had more fun with it, and several blamed the outage on recent events besides the winter weather blast.</p>
<p>&#8220;The NORAD Santa Tracker is down. Our defense system is down,&#8221; one user joked. &#8220;An 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.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I don’t want to worry everyone but… Norad’s Santa Tracker is down,&#8221; one user wrote, before taking several swipes at ELon Musk&#8217;s takeover of Twitter. &#8220;What’s going on? Has Elon banned live sharing of Santa’s &#8216;assassination coordinates?&#8217; Have the reindeer demanded WFH this year?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Norad santa tracker isn&#8217;t working, they must&#8217;ve given all the money for that to Ukraine this year,&#8221; said another.</p>
<p>NORAD restored the site at around 7:30 A.M. EST. &#8220;Thank you for your patience!&#8221; NORAD wrote on its <a href="https://www.facebook.com/noradsanta/posts/pfbid01PgJ2BRoYjqfNTx8dJeMkJQEFzSg61wncrh9c4RV9XNr7RYzR1YpmMaVs3HePNQFl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> page. &#8220;We are up and running! (Santa has been up for hours.)&#8221;</p>
<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>
<p>The U.S. Air Force began &#8220;tracking&#8221; St. Nick&#8217;s 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>

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