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Hurricane Ida Floods Unearths Casket Containing Remains Of Grandmother Buried In 2013
- The coffin washed up on the lawn of a private property 300 yards away, and was found by CBS news reporter David Begnaud.
A Louisiana family is facing having to rebury their grandmother after her casket was washed out of a burial vault in Hurricane Ida’s flash floods, and ended up on a front lawn 300 yards away.
Ester Morton was buried in 2013 in Barataria, Louisiana – 40 minutes outside of New Orleans.
Her casket had been laying in a burial vault at a nearby graveyard until Hurricane Ida hit the state as a Category 4 storm at the end of last month.
The hurricane sparked flash floods, which left the graveyard underwater and washed Ester’s casket out of its burial vault.
The coffin washed up on the lawn of a private property 300 yards away, and was found by CBS news reporter David Begnaud.
After finding a nameplate on the side of the coffin, Begnaud managed to contact one of Ester’s daughters.
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After Hurricane Katrina displaced nearly a thousand caskets, Louisiana now requires all of them to have some form of identification, according to NPR.
Ester’s grandson Troy Harvey, who last saw the casket when he was a pallbearer at his grandmother’s funeral, came to remove it from the lawn.
Harvey was visibly emotional at the sight of his grandmother’s casket.
‘Jesus, I love you so much,’ he said as he place his hand on the coffin.
‘I don’t know how we supposed to get the casket back into its place, but I’m sure they’re not comfortable having it sitting on their front lawn either,’ he told Begnaud.
It turned out that the property owner and Harvey grew up together before Harvey moved to Texas, and the man offered his trailer to get Morton back to her resting place once the flood water went down.
The men haven’t seen each other in 30 years.
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