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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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Katrina,\r\n Yes, its Katrina again. Maybe all the people that I know experienced the angry of katrina. All of the people that I know left their home and has to relocated to a different places that they never know. Some…

Summer was over and the parents were starting to yell because the summer reading books weren\'t read yet. It was after the first week of school and all we could think about was our highly anticipated weekend. It was the…

To best understand my Katrina story, one must first have a tiny bit of background story. In July 2005, my mother fell 3 stories and landed on a cement staircase. She suffered multiple fractures from her feet to her skull…

While in a cramped hotel in Jackson MS, my family and about 50 others crowded around a battery operated TV trying to see what was left of our city. Over and over the news stations broadcasted horrific images of the…

A day before the storm, I left Plaquemines Parish to head to Franklin, Tn. We have no family there, just a close relative who had close friends in the area. My mother, brother, my pet bird, and I took the trip while my…

One vivid memory I have is after the storm when my mother and I evacuated to Nashville, she would wake up have her morning coffee and continue on her process of calling FEMA at least 5 times a day. Because the lines were…

I was actually at a church fair when i recieved the news that we would have to evacuate for hurricane Katrina. My first thoughts were great extended vacation. I thought we would be gone for a few days then return back,…

I was just starting high school when Katrina hit. I am the oldest in a family of five. When we evacuated it felt like any other Hurricane evacuation; you only packed 3 outfits, put valuables high up just incase it…

I lived a few miles from the industrial canal. My home got 4 feet of water. Me and myt family evacuated to Natchez Mississippi and stayed there for a few months. We later came home in october and stayed with relatives on…

I was 15 years old when Katrina hit. It was only my second year attending Archbishop Chapelle High School. I remember feeling a mixture of fear and excitement--of course thinking I would be out of town for no more than…