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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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Before Hurricane Katrina ever hit, my family and I left for Texas. We went online to book a hotel room and we managed to get one, and at the time everything seemed to be fine. When we got to the hotel, they told us that…

I will likely add more when I have more time, but for now:\r\n\r\nI was a resident of the French Quarter of New Orleans when Katrina hit. I had evacuated to Lafayette. I returned just after Rita hit, and I noted that…

I remember hearing about the storm merely three days before my family evacuated our westbank home for over three weeks. Three weeks may not seem long to other evacuees but in a house in Houston with twenty other people…