By Bernie Woodall and Karl Plume ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) -Search-and-rescue teams who have already saved hundreds of people scoured the mountains of western North Carolina for more survivors on Tuesday,

North Carolina resumed search and rescue operations today, intent on delivering aid and making contact with hundreds of people cut off by washed-out roads and damaged cellphone towers in following Hurricane Helene.

Rescuers fanned out across the mountains of western North Carolina on Tuesday in search of anyone still unaccounted for since Hurricane Helene’s remnants caused catastrophic damage