POINTE A LA HACHE (AP) — Blue tarpaulins cover loose caskets near Plaquemines Parish cemeteries. The caskets floated out of tombs during Hurricane Isaac and were scattered around large sections of eastern Plaquemines Parish.

Seventy-year-old O’Neal Dorsey told The Times-Picayune that Hurricane Katrina hardly touched the parish’s cemeteries, but Isaac left damaged caskets and exposed bodies.

State and parish crews, contractors and volunteers, have brought most of the loose caskets to Louisiana Highway 39 and covered them with the tarps.