[voidUpdate]

It is the place of work of the disaster recovery people, who have established communication channels and procedures. If there is literally nobody coming to help you, then it may be reasonable to go ahead and do it yourself, but it feels incredibly unwise to do it if there are already people trying to do things

[fleabagmange]

Yes and at the time there was no one coming to help. This incident didn’t occur yesterday, it occurred immediately after the storm in a town that is, to this day, unreachable.

Respectfully, please get your facts straight here. The ignorance of HN is well on display in this thread.

[jquery]

The ignorance of HN is well on display, a quick perusal of the North Carolina subreddit shows a lot of partisans are trying to use this disaster for political gain. They would like all the “helpful” people spreading disinformation that “help isn’t allowed” to stop.

[infamia]

So many of communities in NC are completely cut off without food, water, power, and until a day or two ago cell service. The level of "disaster recovery" is shameful to nonexistent in so many places. I invite you to watch the video from this news report.

https://www.qcnews.com/news/investigations/sc-pilot-flying-v...

[user_7832]

> It is the place of work of the disaster recovery people

Depending on the details of aviation airspace, it’s possibly also the place of work of anybody with a pilot’s license and a suitable aircraft. General aviation allows massive leeways.