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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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Hurricane Katrina will be an event that I will never forget in my lifetime. The images have left an indelible mark in my head. I can\'t even fathom the amount of pain that the residents of New Orleans have had to endure.…

My home is in a coastal area, much like many of these homes were. I live in Virginia Beach, and it\'s less than a 10 minute drive to the Oceanfront from my home. When Hurricane Katrina and Rita hit, I found myself…

I can\'t go back home and i miss home so much. I live in Texas now and I hate so bad because people down here think that we are bad people just because we are from New Orleans.

I know a couple who were truck drivers and were actually delivering a load of 4 gallon size bottles of water for FEMA to the devestated area after Katrina. \r\n Upon their arrival at the drop site, they found a…

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I am a highly trained and experienced legal professional, a paralegal/legal secretary/legal assistant, in Jackson, MS, 160 miles north of the Gulf Coast. A few weeks after my 63rd birthday, I was downsized from the…

The old songs\r\nsing the pain\r\nI have seen lately,\r\n\r\npenning its\r\npath on my\r\nface in wrinkled lines\r\n\r\nof writing ...\r\npoetry\r\nof life you can read.\r\n\r\nYou know the\r\nlyrics as\r\nwell as I do…