CRISFIELD, Md. - Three days after the super storm, new problems are popping up in Crisfield. It looks like the flooding has taken it's toll on graveyards in the area.
"Crisfield ain't seen nothing like this before in my life," resident Joshua Harrison said.
In a cemetery off of North Somerset Ave., two coffins rose up from out of the ground. There was so much water in the graveyard that the coffins forced themselves up out of the graves and dislodged the cement slabs on top of them. "That casket's actually still sealed. It works. It's an airtight seal. When it's surrounded by water like that, the displacement of that coffin can actually lift that concrete lid right off. Now if the coffins are leaking, the lids aren't going to come off because the vaults full of water anyhow," Philip Goldsborough of the Crisfield Volunteer Fire Company said.
Just a mile away, the cemetery at Asbury United Methodist Church has 3 more caskets floating in their graves.
As the town works to piece things back together, residents admit the added cost of repairing final resting places weighs heavily on a financially stressed town. "I don't know what people are going to do. People are unemployed down here. This town didn't have no money to begin with, and after a devastating storm like this, it's ruined us," resident John Poole said.
We're told family members will be notified and the coffins will be put back into place after the water is pumped out from underneath them.
Members of Asbury United Methodist Church also tell us they may plan to host a fundraiser to help repair damages.
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