This is What Philly Looks Like from Above While Residents Practice Social Distancing

On a normal weekend in April, Philadelphia’s streets are usually full of people out shopping, grabbing food or just laying around in one of the city’s many parks.

But since nonessential businesses closed nearly a month ago, and Gov. Tom Wolf enacted a stay-at-home to force social distancing at the beginning of this month, one of the country’s biggest cities has been quiet.

A father-and-son team called 717 Drone Guys set out to capture what the nearly empty streets of Philadelphia looked like during the pandemic and shared the results on YouTube. Since the video was published Wednesday, it’s racked up nearly half a million views and has been shared widely on social media.

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