The North American Aerospace Defense Command has today announce it's intention to track the Rapture, as a curtain raiser to tracking the End of the World.
Commencing at 6pm on Saturday the 21st May, NORAD will use it's highly acclaimed "SantaTracker" network of satellites and webcams to follow the Rapture from it's beginning in Fiji and New Zealand and on, through the Far East, Asia, Europe and finally to the United States of America.
It is expected that the Rapture will change speed as it travels the world time zones. This may mean that the Rapture arrives a little earlier or later than expected in your local time zone, and so you should be prepared a little early, and not be too disappointed if you are still here a little later than you expect.
This is due to the logistics of transporting the various population densities of expected "rapturees" in various parts of the world.
Clearly, for example, the Rapture will move speedily through Europe, especially because the Catholics are not going, but slow down massively when it hits the East Coast of the USA, slowing almost to a crawl when it hits Tulsa, but then speeding considerably as it mops up California.
Travel arrangements have been made to accommodate the Southern Baptists, staging posts might be required.
NORAD has been told to expect that they will not be able to use the regular "World Daylight Map", because it will be so bright everywhere that this map will, for this day, have little meaningful use.
Counselors and psychiatrists have been stationed at Post Offices all over the USA to deal with the disappointment of Atheists when they realise that so few American Christians qualify that the GOP will probably be able to maintain it's majority in the House, although it's unlikely they will take the Senate.
There could be an unexpected vacancy in the White House, housing as it does an actual Christian.
This has been a Public Service Announcement.