Burial vaults have a practical purpose. They prevent the ground over a grave site from sinking as the casket underneath deteriorates with time. Vaults keep bodily fluids from leaking out. In the wo… ...

Hurricane Ida swept through Louisiana with furious winds that ripped roofs off buildings and storm surge so powerful it moved homes. What it wrought on the living it also wrought on the dead ...

Louisiana’s cultural burial practices that often lay the dead to rest above ground make the problem common in the aftermath of hurricanes or flooding.

Local News Drone video showed one casket, several vaults in Orange County Imelda floodwaters The Orange County Sheriff's Office says the video was deceiving, and only showed a single casket.

A Louisiana task force is working to gather vaults and caskets disrupted from their burial sites by Hurricane Ida and rebury them.

Caskets that floated from their tombs during flooding from Hurricane Ida sit along a roadside in Ironton, La., Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. Hurricane Ida swept through Louisiana with furious winds that ...

Hurricane Ida swept through Louisiana with furious winds that ripped roofs off buildings and storm surge so powerful it moved homes. What it wrought on the living it also wrought on the dead ...

Hurricane Ida swept through Louisiana with furious winds that ripped roofs off buildings and storm surge so powerful it moved homes. What it wrought on the living it also wrought on the dead ...

Hurricane Ida swept through Louisiana with furious winds that ripped roofs off buildings and storm surge so powerful it moved homes. What it wrought on the living it also wrought on the dead, moving ...

Hurricane Ida swept through Louisiana with furious winds that ripped roofs off buildings and storm surge so powerful it moved homes. What it wrought on the living it also wrought on the dead ...