Sinking cemeteries in Louisiana

In this Dec. 29, 2012, photo, South Lafourche Levee District General Manager Windell Curole, who also serves on the state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, walks through his small family cemetery which sits along the bayou near Leeville, La. Some 11 cemeteries in Jefferson Parish have repeatedly flooded since Katrina, and in Lafourche, Terrebonne and Plaquemines parishes, more than a dozen others have succumbed to tidal surges. Curole said saltwater from the Gulf is causing a crippling subsidence problem.

Credit: AP Photo/Dave Martin