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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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My father was living in a nursing home in New Orleans which wasn\'t evacuating for the storm. He had advanced dementia and was not mobile. My 80 year old mother and I went to be with him in his building. The day after…

It is July 27, 2010, and in another month, it will be the 5th anniversary of Katrina. I don\'t think (at least in the continental U.S.) that there has ever been such a catastrophe, both natural & made made that has…

My family and I evacuated the Sunday before Katrina hit. This consisted of me, my older sister, my parents, my aunt, three dogs and a pet bird. We had reservations in Houston. After being on Highway 90 for eight…

I did not live in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina, but lived the traumatic experience through family and close friends. I was born in New Orleans, but grew up in Georgia. My family still resides here and I have…

We evacuated the Saturday before Katrina. The ironic thing is, I had no intention on leaving the city. That morning, my sister called me and said we would be going to Baton Rouge. I didn\'t think the storm would hit,…

We weren\'t going to leave.\r\nWell, I wanted to. But my husband was one of those I-was-here-for-Betsy-and-I\'m-not-leaving types. Of course in Betsy he was 11, he lived near the river and didn\'t flood, and his dad was…

The whole experience of Hurricane Katrina was so surreal that after five years it seems to me like it never was different. I can\'t even really remember how life was before August 29, 2005. I had just graduated…

The day before Hurricane Katrina struck, we packed up our cars and set out for slow crawl through traffic towards Lafayette. My mother and some close relatives took the trip with me. We ended up spending the night in…

This is a second blog that I wrote on the two year Anniversary of Katrina including photographs.

This is a brief blog with photographs that I wrote on the two year anniversary of Katrina.