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Well, looks like the pioneer spirit is well dead and buried in the US.

"You are not allowed to do anything without the approval of the Nameless, Faceless Bureaucracy [that isn't coming to help anyway]."

What would your reaction be if someone showed up to your place of work and just started trying to do things how they thought they should be done, ignoring the proper channels and now knowing any of the procedures?

It’s not a place of work. It’s America.

It’s also a disaster zone beyond anything some keyboard warriors need be pontificating on.

Ive personally had to deliver diesel into Asheville to rescue family with a two month old over the weekend. You might see some nice PR photos coming out from the last day or two of Chinooks and cargo drops but at the time this incident occurred, there was nothing going on out there. If you didn’t know someone who could help you, or make it to a central place point you were SOL.

Here and today, now, even with assets in place it just isn’t enough.

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

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.

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.

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...

> 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.

The comments in this thread are astounding. The only thing I can think of that may be happening is that people here are so disturbed by the possibility that emergency services can fail that they have fallen into denial. "There is no need for people to help, at least without going through organized channels, because those organized channels are in control" is what I suspect they are thinking.

I saw it online after Trump was shot- "How could the top protection organization in the world fail so flagrantly? The shooter must have had inside help." Some people cannot accept that the world is less safe than it really is. It could be the cause of some of these comments in this thread but I don't know if it's the whole cause.

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