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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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On the evening of August 28, 2005, my friends and I all planned to attend the high school jamboree as we did every year. That year the jamboree was a part of my birthday plan for the weekend (my birthday was the…

I am from Gentilly in New Orleans, Louisiana. My house have 13 feet of water in it, making the flood water line on top of my roof. My father is a captain of the New Orleans Fire Department and in the case of a natural…

A Humanist in a Hurricane\r\nby Steve Schlicht\r\n\r\nON AUGUST 29, 2005, at about 5:00 a.m., I awoke from a restless sleep and checked the Internet for the latest location of \"the storm.\" In just a few hours Katrina…

I was right out of high school and in my first week of college at UNO. when the storm hit I ended up in Baton Rouge for a few days then i went to San Antonio for a week or two when I came back my families house it had…

My Katrina story is bittersweet. My younger siblings;Juliene and Rachel and I evacuated with 44 of my family members to Gloster, MS. My mother and father stayed behind in Algiers and I kissed and hugged them goodbye on…

I was born and raised in New Orleans but was living in Los Angeles at the time of the storm. I never felt so far from home, so lonely. The scariest part was that my mom didn\'t have time to get anything out of our house,…

Before Katrina, I thought of Florida as the best place to live. My grandma lives there and every summer I go there to visit her. When Katrina hit, my family and I evacuated there and ended up staying there for 2 months.…

My family evacuated from Hurricane Katrina to Tennessee. During my stay there (over a month) I learned why Tennessee is called the volunteer state. My family stayed with another family in an old Naval housing complex…

My story is similar to that of the rest of the country. I\'m not from New Orleans. I watched Hurricane Katrina from my living room for two weeks straight. I was gripped with horror, desparation, and an overhwelming sense…