We welcome contributions from survivors, first responders, relief workers, family, friends, and anyone with reflections on the hurricanes and their aftermath.

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me and my team mates working at camp hope in St. Bernard Parish, LA where the town was flooded three times Katrina Rita and the levey's. we lived in a gutted out elementary school with 500 other...

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“My family and I evacuated the Sunday before Katrina. We intended on staying and riding out the storm, but when we saw how much strength it had gained during the previous days of tracking it, we had no choice but to pack a couple of days’ worth of clothes and food, and head out on a journey that we never would have expected.” More...

The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans organized the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) in partnership with national and Gulf Coast area partners. HDMB was awarded the Award of Merit for Leadership in History, and is the largest free public archive of Katrina and Rita with over 25,000 items in the collection.

Read more about the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank.