Santa’s piling up more than presents this year. The big man’s trackers at NORAD say Santa Claus also broke records this Christmas Eve.
Volunteers at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs were fielding 8,000 calls an hour Saturday afternoon, on pace to break a record. Also, Santa’s NORAD Facebook page approached 920,000 “likes” by midafternoon. Last year, Santa had 716,000 “likes.” Volunteers at NORAD Tracks Santa said kids started calling at 4 a.m. Saturday.
“The phones are ringing like crazy,” Lt. Cmdr. Bill Lewis said Saturday.
NORAD has been telling eager children about Santa’s whereabouts every year since 1955.
First lady Michelle Obama was among the volunteers for a second year in a row. She took about 10 calls from her family’s holiday vacation in Hawaii.
The Associated Press
