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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.

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During the evacuation, my husband and I made the \r\nheart-breaking choice of leaving our 7 cats behind.\r\n\r\nWe live off of Chef Hwy. and Downman Rd. The house is over 50 years old. It had never flooded. Reasoning…

My brother, John O. Schreve, evacuated a few hours after I evacuated with my elderly parents, daughter, and son-in-law. We had planned to stay at a facility in Jasper, but FEMA then directed all of Jasper to evacuate,…

I FEEL SO BAD THAT THE STORM HIT THEM THERE WAS NOTHING THEY COULED DO I LIVE HERE INN SARSOTA AND IM WHITH ALL OF YOU AND YOU CAN EMAIL ME ANYTIME I WILL ANSER VERY FAST TELL GODS KIDS THAT HE LOVES THEM GOD BLESS YOU…

Blogger\'s comments and posted responses in an online discussion regarding busses and the evacuation process in New Orleans. The title of this exchange is: \"Comments on Images Show Busses Evacuating New Orleans, More…

Images Show Busses…

Excerpted from September 7, 2005 article in The Columbia Daily Tribune: \r\nNunez says they caught a barge on the Mississippi River to the Algiers Ferry. There, they ended up on a stolen bus that took him and other…

April 2007: A federal judge has dismissed a claim that local police violated the right to travel of New Orleans residents trying to get out after Hurricane Katrina.\r\n\r\nFull text available via the link.\r\n

Judge dismissed…

Excerpted from an October 2005, Danville, Kentucky, newspaper interview with a woman who waited near the Algiers Ferry Terminal for more than two days to be evacuated:\r\nBurris, her two children, the couple and their…

Sgt. Cliff Ortis of the Louisiana Wildlife Agents Association describes his experiences helping evacuees from St. Bernard Parish move from the Algiers Ferry Landing and into National Guard trucks and other vehicles. The…

Algiers Ferry…

I feel that we have been throw a lot and we should have no more hurricanes because they are a harm to our state .even though we still get through it .But my life has been good ever since the hurricanes we have been…