Question regarding New Orleans

[Horse with no Name]

I know they bury their dead above ground.
If the water does hit 20 feet--will it erode the graves and potentially displace the caskets?

[NMDemDist2]

1. it will come right over the seawalls and flood the city

it will be very very ugly

[lavenderdiva]

2. yes.

The graves are actually usually stone tombs. These stone tombs are family crypts, that are very old, and used for several generations. Many of these tombs are quite beautiful, and photographed often for their beautiful statuary and their significance. Enough water would be disastrous, and catastrophic for family members, who might 'lose' their loved ones remains.

[Bluebear]

5. Did you ever see "Double Jeopardy"?

The graveyard scene freaked me out!

[Horse with no Name]

6. You aint lying

That was pretty freaky. :scared:

[lavenderdiva]

8. yes,

in fact, I was still living in New Orleans at the time, working in the French Quarter, right across the street from where the movie was filming. Ashley Judd would come in our store and shop on her breaks.

That scene was pretty spooky, you're right! Especially when she is in the casket, trying to get out!

[xmas74]

3. I would think that it easily could.

When we had floods in my area of Missouri in '93 and '95 we had a cemetary that was washed away and human remains were found downstream. If the floodwaters were high enough than the remains in NO could also wash away.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. Yes. It will be a real mess all the way around.

[nosmokes]

7. thems already dead are the least of the worries...n/t

[MnFats]

9. good point.

'let the dead be concerned with the dead...' or something like that.

[skids]

10. Corpses, debris, creatures/microbes from the wetlands, oil and chemicals.

It will be ugly. And quite potentially flammable. Let's just hope NO beats the odds and somehow makes it out of this with less damage than the worst case scenario.

[Horse with no Name]

11. Also reading earlier

(I'm almost afraid to have an opinion about this,lol)
the concern was that the sewage plants would be underwater and mixed with everything else (because the city is in a bowl), would become a toxic waste hazard.
That was the reason for the question.