Louisiana teams search for flooding survivors

Louisiana continues to dig itself out from devastating floods, with search parties going door to door looking for survivors of flooding so powerful it disturbed the dead and sent caskets floating from cemeteries.

At least 13 people died in the flooding that swept through southern Louisiana after torrential rains lashed the region.

While waters have slowly receded in many areas, the hard work of rebuilding lives is just ramping up, with people cleaning out their homes while others struggle to find a place to stay.

At the Plainview Cemetery in Denham Springs, relatives gathered to see what had become of their plots, only to find a chaotic mess with some vaults overturned and in other cases only empty outlines of graves remaining.

In southern Louisiana, the water table is so high that people generally cannot be buried six feet under.