Hurricane Ida devastated Ironton, Louisiana, as it made its deadly march inland, with powerful flood waters that knocked homes off their foundations, swamped buildings with several feet of water and swept caskets out of their tombs, scattering them around the community.
Some of those caskets are still sitting there almost four weeks after the category 4 storm, as residents work to salvage anything they can from their homes and prepare for the grueling process of rebuilding.A casket displaced from Ironton Cemetery rests in debris left by Hurricane Ida."It caused people to be in disarray," said Haywood Johnson, the pastor of St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Ironton.
She told WVUE that she had buried her brother in the cemetery a day before Ida's landfall."It is heartbreaking," Trufant Salvant told WVUE."We've gone through this so many times before and [the] only answer to all of this would be levee protection."Poché said the corps of engineers is working on two separate projects to improve the levees in the parish and the contracts should be awarded in November.
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