You can't get in
the extremely hard hit areas are closed off for the most part, they won't let you in most likely. The lesser to moderate areas hit...nothing is an emergency and it is just work, a lot of it paid. These are homeowners with just trees down...they aren't devastated. There's just a lot of them. People are asking for free labor, but it ain't like their houses are smashed or anything, they just want to milk out free labor. Well, that's what insurance is for.
Like the others said, unless part of a well organized group that the "man" recognizes, they won't let you in.
Last fall we got hit with a small tornado, put a hugemongous red oak branch in our living room, and assorted other destruction. No one came up to see if we were OK or anything, just rubbernecked on by. I went up on the roof by myself while the storm was still blowing hard and trimmed branches enough to get a tarp over the whole mess, later on some guys came by with business cards..that's it, just want to be paid.
I'm working on a huge mess right now, the owner here, my boss, hired some bucket truck part timers to come and drop this big pine tree....both guys in the bucket, no ground crew, just bombed it down in huge chunks. I'm out there now with a tractor and chains and get to untangle it and cut it up and clean it up..what a mess...ya, I'm steemed over it. Taking a break right now but back at it shortly. Trying to get the big chunks out and flat before I start cutting, dangerous pile right now they left. DBH around 40 something inches, so ya, some big chunks mixed in with smaller tangled stuff all under spring pressure.
But..we got spared again. Other folks just a few miles north of me didn't fare as well..a lot of that area still closed off, they are still looking for missing people and stuff.