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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 favorite place to get a Po-Boy is Castnet. Castnet is located in New Orleans East at 10826 Haynes Blvd. The tastiest Po-Boy would have to be the shrimp. I always get a shrimp po-poy with pickles and extra…

Castnet Po-Boy

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Nicole Romagossa\'s Aunt tells the following stories about her family\'s connections to Carrollton and Oak Street:\r\n\r\nMy family\'s roots are deep in the Carrollton/Oak Street area. My great grandmother, Pauline…

Oak Street Roots run…

From the locker room floor in Tyler, Texas to the snow covered mountain tops of Montana to the warm southern breeze in Miami, Florida, the University of New Orleans women\'s basketball coach Amy Champion has done more…

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My hurricane experience for Katrina was full of arguing, fighting, and bickering between all of my family members and it turned out to be hell. During Gustav, I learned my lesson and went where my family wasn\'t going. I…

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2006. This is a picture of my FEMA trailer, which was located in front of my house in New Orleans East. It took months for FEMA to actually bring the trailer and hook up the electricity! I lived in it with my mother and…

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I am a Katrina survivor who knows first hand what a hurricane is capable of. My husband and I rode out the storm in our home on the lake and fortunately we survived and even though we lost everything we owned we are…

Gustav & Katrina

I was going to stay for the storm but luckily a friend called me that morning and got me out. I was lucky to get out.

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My family and I didnt have the money to run from katrina but because we lived on the bayou cumbest road we went to the kids inn.And when it was over we went by boat and couldnt even see our house.after we were able to go…

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Hurricane Ike waters rose high enough for my son to fish off of our fornt porch. Delcambre, La. \r\n

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