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Hurricane Archive

Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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The Roy Rosenzweig 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 2005 in partnership with many national and Gulf Coast area organizations and individuals. 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.

Items (502 total)

I was in 7th grade at the time of Hurricane Katrina, at St. Christopher Elementary School in Metairie. I do live in Metairie, but I remember when the hurricane was finally targeted at New Orleans, my school teachers and…

Victoria Slind-Flor, former resident of New Orleans in the 1980s and journalist now a resident of Oakland, CA. Originally published in The Beltane Papers, an online journal no longer in existence. The original story…

Sacred Underpants of…

I moved to the city after Hurricane Katrina. I did not move here because of the storm, or to rebuild the city, or because I rode trains across country. I moved here because of a woman--now mother to our one year old…

My parents and I, their dog and my cat, came back to New Orleans on September 22, 2005 (my birthday, incidentally). We had traveled from Alabama only to be met at every checkpoint by National Guards who told us they…

A baptist church after Katrina. The entire rear side of the building is washed away. This church is located in the Lower 9th Ward North of Claiborne. The photo was taken during the middle of 2006 as I recall. I\'d guess…

This is a song I wrote shortly after Katrina. I arrived here approximately two weeks after Katrina hit and have been here ever since. My music is the majority of the reason I stayed, and the unique culture that supports…

Hurricane Katrina came through South Florida where I lived at the time as a strong Category Two, killed four people and filled both of my trailers with water. I was at a Red Cross shelter helping with ham radio at the…