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by Brittany on 19 September 2008 - 01:09
I recieved these photos on a weather related group. I thought you guys might be interest.
We are REPULSED to see expensive $8,000-10,000 coffins mortuaries stiff the bereaved for surfacing from their final resting places, rotting in the open air with the stench of decomposing remains seeping into the floodwaters. A most vile and disturbing thing this is. MORAL OF THE STORY: If you live in the gulf area, GET CREMATED. Don’t waste a fortune on a coffin when this will happen to the grave of your loved ones!
“A Most Revolting Thing”
Submerged tombs and floating caskets, rear, are seen at the Hollywood Community Cemetery, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008, in Orange, Texas.
The Hollywood Community Cemetery is seen with several caskets scattered about
after surfacing due to flood waters caused by Hurricane Ike on Sunday, Sept. 14,
2008, in Orange, Texas. Hurricane Ike’s surge overcame the levee along the
Sabine River that flows by Orange causing wide spread flooding to the city.
by Brittany on 19 September 2008 - 01:09
The grave site of blues musician Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown is seen at the Hollywood Cemetery in Orange, Texas, Monday, Sept. 15, 2008. vaults and caskets were exposed after Hurricane Ike caused flooding in the area, including Brown's grave.
In this Aug. 11, 1996 file photo, blues musician Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown plays the fiddle during his performance at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, R.I. The 1982 Grammy Award winner's casket was one of dozens belched up by the ground when gulf and rain waters from Hurricane Ike flooded Hollywood Cemetery, an all-black burial ground on the west side of Orange, Texas, on the Sabine River.
An angel grave marker looks over surfaced caskets at the Hollywood Community cemetery
An open gravesite with remaining flood water is seen with surfaced caskets at rear at the Hollywood Community Cemetery in Orange, Texas.
by Brittany on 19 September 2008 - 01:09
Members of the National Guard return a casket vault back to a to the Hollywood Cemetery, in Orange, Texas, Monday, Sept. 15, 2008. The vault floated from its grave sites and rested on a nearby roadway after Hurricane Ike caused flooding in the area.
by PowerHaus on 19 September 2008 - 01:09
Brittany,
In that area people are not burried very deep as the water table is close to the surface! This happened in New Orleans also. This is not a supprise or unheard of thing for those who live in these areas. I am sure that the cemetary on Galveston island is the same way too! Don't worry, those bodies have more than likely decomposed (in the ground) as much as they are going too and these coffins are typically locked before they are lowered into the or placed in the crypt. What you don't see very well is that most of those crypt's that hold the coffins are not completely under the ground either.
Vickie
by tbm1874 on 19 September 2008 - 01:09
Hmmm...
This may come across wrong but what the hell.
Brittany,
Why in the hell do you find this news worthy enough to post on the message board? THOUSANDS of people in our area have lost their homes and all belongings to the point that all is left is concrete slabs...NOTHING remains at all. People have lost EVERYTHING...yet you are more worried about caskets surfacing after the storms?? My family has lost TWO homes filled with memories on the Bolivar Peninsula and many long time friends in that area have lost everything.
Nice...you should be ashamed of yourself.
by PowerHaus on 19 September 2008 - 01:09
Brittany,
Also when the caskets are locked and sealed they are air tight or close too it! So this would be comparitive to holding a blown up balloon under water, what do you think is going to happen?
Vickie
by Two Moons on 19 September 2008 - 02:09
I agree it's pretty far from news worthy.
Vickie's right, it happen's all the time in certain place's.
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