The following excerpts are from an article August 20, 2016 at the chieftain.com website.
ST. AMANT, La. — Louisiana continues to dig itself out from devastating floods, with search parties going door to door looking for survivors or bodies trapped by flooding so powerful in some cases it disturbed the dead and sent caskets floating from cemeteries.
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In a uniquely Louisiana problem, some families are also trying to rebury relatives whose caskets were unearthed by the floods.
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At least 15 cemeteries across seven parishes have had disruptions, the Louisiana Dept. of Health reported, although they don’t yet have an estimate of how many graves, tombs, and vaults have been damaged.
