David Grunfeld
Dwight Robinson, 59, looks for the casket of his mother, Irma LeBlanc Robinson, on the Mississippi River levee, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. She died in 1995 at the age of 81 and was buried in the Bertrandville Cemetery in Plaquemines Parish. Hurricane Isaac and its 15 of storm surge decimated that cemetery and floated caskets and crypts at least a quarter mile. (AP Photo/The Times-Picayune, David Grunfeld) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; USA TODAY OUT
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.