More than 100 people are dead while more than 600 others are missing or unaccounted for in the aftermath of the hurricane.
More than 50 rescue teams across North Carolina are working to reach people stranded by Hurricane Helene, which Governor Roy Cooper warns has washed entire communities off the map.
Officials are having to airlift emergency supplies, including food and water to certain areas in the state due to road closures, with local residents posting updates online of their searches for loved ones.
In an update earlier, US President Joe Biden said businesses and homes in south-east US, where Helene hit over the weekend, had been washed away in an instant.
More than 600 people are missing or unaccounted for in the aftermath of the hurricane, according to the White House.
At least 116 people have died nationwide.
Some two million people are without power as 50,000 personnel try to restore electricity across multiple states.
Helene - which made landfall in Florida on Thursday - began as a category four hurricane and became the most powerful on record to hit Florida's Big Bend before moving north into Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee.
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