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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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I was born and raised in the Buccaneer Villa North subdivision in Chalmette. I moved to Dallas, TX because I lost everything from Hurricane Katrina. My mom bought a house here in Dallas and my husband and I moved in with…

After completing four years of active duty in the military away from home, i was ready to get back to New Orleans and enjoy being home for good. In July of 2005, I was looking forward to spending time with my family and…

On August 29th 2005 I watched the aftermath of hurricane Katrina on a CNN newscast from a gym in Iraq. It was the last 3 weeks of my deployment and here I was with 8 other people watching the news of our flooded city,…

\r\n\r\nAfter studying abroad, I transferred to UNO in 2003 to finish my studies and hoped to graduate by 2005. I moved into an apartment in a four apartment complex located near Ponchatrain Lake only a few miles from…

On August 29th 2005 I watched the aftermath of hurricane Katrina on a CNN newscast from a gym in Iraq. It was the last 3 weeks of my deployment and here I was with 8 other people watching the news of our flooded city,…

It was exactly eight days after Katrina struck the city, my father and I decided to go back to the city and check on our house. We heard on the news and from other people in our hotel in Houston that the troops blocked…

I remember meeting at my parents\' house at 2am the day before Katrina was expected to make landfall. With four vehicles loaded up with necessities and memoirs, we set out to find shelter from the storm. One of my…

It was a house that became a victim to Katrina\'s brutality. This house, once nestled seamlessly in a cozy lakefront community, now stands out like a dog lying dead on the side of the highway. Its insides turned out,…

Thankful\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nEvery New Orleanian has his/her own Katrina horror story. Homes were devoured by disease-infested water reaching from the wooden floors of the first level to the wooden floors on the second. …

I enter through the side door because I seem to have misplaced my key for the \r\n\r\nfront door, as if that matters now. It takes a few jiggles and some sweet-talk to get the \r\n\r\ndoor loosened from the jamb; the…