Cemetery Damage and Displaced Caskets after Hurricane Isaac

Hurricane Isaac was a slow-moving tropical cyclone that caused severe damage along the northern Gulf Coast of the United States. Isaac developed from a tropical wave located east of the Lesser Antilles on August 21, strengthening into a tropical storm later that day. Isaac passed over Hispaniola and Cuba as a strong tropical storm, killing at least 34 people in Hispaniola, before it entered the Gulf of Mexico. Isaac reached hurricane strength the morning of August 28. The storm made its first U.S. landfall at 6:45 p.m. CDT that evening , near the mouth of the Mississippi River. It made a second and final landfall at 2:00 a.m. CDT the next morning at Port Fourchon, Louisiana. At least 9 fatalities have been confirmed in the United States—5 in Louisiana and two each in Mississippi and Florida.

Flooded grave at a cemetery in Plaquemines Paris, Louisiana. Photo credit: Julie Dermansky - LINK

August 30th 2012, Oakville, Louisiana, in Plaquemines Parish the cemetery damage is reveled after the pump was turned on and the water receded . The cemetery was flooded with over 6ft feet of water by the surge created by Hurricane Isaac damaging many of the graves. Photo credit: Julie Dermansky - LINK

As floodwaters in Braithwaite, La., recede, a cemetery's upturned graves are revealed. Photo credit: Gerald Herbert/AP - LINK

Tombs sit washed atop a levee by flood waters after a levee breach in Braithwaite, Louisiana - LINK

The breach of the Braithwaite levee that caused the headstones to become uprooted - LINK

A coffin and tombs dislodged by a levee breach from Hurricane Isaac's flood waters - LINK

A headstone sits in a flooded cemetery in Slidell, Louisiana. Louisiana residents are coping with the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac with ongoing flooding, destroyed property and many still without electricity. - Getty Images - LINK

A cemetery lies flooded in the Maurepas area of Livingston Parish Friday. The area was hit hard by Hurricane Isaac floodwaters. Photo credit: Adam Lau - LINK

A coffin is washed up onto a front lawn due to Hurricane Isaac flooding in Plaquemines Parish in Braithwaite, Louisiana - LINK

A coffin lies on the side of a levee in Braithwaite, Louisiana. Washed up by floodwaters from Hurricane Isaac - LINK

A casket is dislodged from a cemetery and rests on the bottom of a levee in Plaquemines Parish following flooding from Hurricane Isaac. Photo credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images - LINK

A dump truck passes a casket from an upturned graveyard after floodwaters from Hurricane Isaac receded in Braithwaite, La.,Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Photo credit: Gerald Herbert/AP - LINK

A coffin is partially dislodged from its crypt at a damaged cemetery in Plaquemines Parish. - LINK

A stone grave washed up on the Mississippi River levee in Ironton, Louisiana that was flooded due to Hurricane Isaac near Louisiana Hwy 23 in Plaquemines Parish. Photo credit: Matthew Hinton/The Associated Press. - LINK

A casket is dislodged from a cemetery and rests at the bottom of a levee in Plaquemines Parish following flooding from Hurricane Isaac on September 2, 2012 in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Photo credit: Mario Tama, Getty Images / SF- LINK

Displaced casket after Hurricane Issac - LINK

A casket from an upturned graveyard after floodwaters from Hurricane Isaac receded in Braithwaite, La.,Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Photo credit: Gerald Herbert/AP - LINK

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