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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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A Place To Call My Own\r\nFinally, there is no one nagging me about cleaning the dishes, picking up my things, or yelling because I\'m home too late. I am finally free to do what I want when I want. I am able to decorate…

Every year we prepared ourselves for the big hurricane, hoping that the hurricane will turn and go some where else. In Aug. of 2005 we as a family decided to pack our things and head for Houston before the big one would…

It\'s coming up on the two year mark of hurricane Katrina and I am still wondering if I\'ve made the right choice in staying here. The week before the Katrina was a busy week for me. I was starting the new fall semester…

It\'s coming up on the two year mark of hurricane Katrina and I am still wondering if I\'ve made the right choice in staying here. The week before the Katrina was a busy week for me. I was starting the new fall semester…

My father, brother, his girlfriend at the time, and I left our home the morning the hurricane hit. We drove to Amite, Louisiana to stay in a house my uncle owned. A house I once thought was spacious and comfortable…

My father, brother, his girlfriend at the time, and I left our home the morning the hurricane hit. We drove to Amite, Louisiana to stay in a house my uncle owned. A house I once thought was spacious and comfortable…

I remember waking up to find out that Hurricane Katrina was indeed going to be some kind of threat to our city. I dialed the phone number to my house, since I slept out at cousin\'s house, to see if my parents were…

Fortunately, Hurricane Katrina did not affect me directly. I was still living in Lafayette, LA at the time of the tragedy. As I recall we did not get a drop of rain when the hurricane hit. Matter of fact it rained…

At four o\'clock in the morning on Sunday August 28th 2005, my family left our home in Kenner, Louisiana to head for Alexandria. It was my first time evacuating, but I wasn\'t too worried. I knew how these things…

When I returned home from my evacuation of Hurricane Katrina, I had already known that my home was left untouched. With the exception of some minor damages such as downed trees and missing shingles, I had a warm home to…