Originally Posted by Llondel
Having seen the Hercules do a zero-altitude drop before now, they could just have it all in the back, fly low along the runway, chuck the parachute out the back and bang! Several large pallets delivered just like that. Of course, that assumes there's resources to clear it off the runway before the next delivery.
Surely that would damage the runway even more than the hurricane had? Unless there was subsurface pavement damage, I wouldn't have thought strong wind and rain would do anything to the runway itself; maybe a bit of flying debris damage. Dropping tonnes of pallets doing 100kts on it, on the other hand...