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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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life is real differnt since katrina past.After i left there i move to geogia in its been real hard to settle down but i did it.

Opus Effloresco (River Sermon)\r\n\r\n\r\nCome Down To The River\r\n\r\nSince original sin got all chopped up,\r\nShe is risen indeed.\r\n\r\nLuna moth came with her big purple eye\r\nJust when I believed her…

When Hurricane Katrina hit, I was a senior in high school, and the school year had basically just started. Since I live in Virginia, no major damage had occurred, but some areas regained power faster than others. In my…

My family lived in New Orleans before moving to Tennessee about 18 years ago. For the past 18 years we have been going back every St. Pattie\'s Day. We have close family friends and relatives still down there also. When…

It is very regular, especially for the few months after Hurrican Katrina for everyone to be talking about the disaster it caused, the lives it took and the people it hurt. That\'s just normal to happen when something…