Louisiana's sinking cemeteries

Two dozen cemeteries across southeast Louisiana are rapidly sinking or washing away because of erosion and sinking accelerated by powerful storms such as hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, Ike, Lee and Isaac. Local residents say 11 cemeteries in Jefferson Parish have repeatedly flooded since Hurricane Katrina. In Lafourche, Terrebonne and Plaquemines parishes, more than a dozen others have succumbed to tidal surge. Some have more than 300 gravesites.