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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 wife, son, daughter, and I initially evacuated to Pontchatoula. My wife\'s cousin has a big house on a nice piece of land, and he allowed most of his relatives from the New Orleans area to stay with him. Monday…

My wife, son, daughter, and I initially evacuated to Pontchatoula. My wife\'s cousin has a big house on a nice piece of land, and he allowed most of his relatives from the New Orleans area to stay with him. Monday…

It was the first week of school and my friends and I finally got together again after a long summer vacation. I was very excited to start school and get together with my friends. However, the excitement did not last very…

In July 2005, we bought a new house on Richland Ave in Metairie, La. It was a single house with 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, and double garage. The house was all white with two big oak trees in our front lawn. There are 9…

An Unforgettable Senior Year\r\n\r\nAugust 22, 2005 was the second week of my senior year in high school, and I was looking forward for an exciting and unforgettable time. My friends and I decided to go for a pre-senior…

I lived on Alabo Street in the lower ninth ward since 1999. The house was a three bedroom, but we all shared a bathroom. When you walked in the door you were in the living room. It wasn\'t very spacious after all the…

It was approximately one week and two days before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans when my best friend and I moved into our new apartment. Saturday morning Stephanie and I fought the hot New Orleans heat and humidity…

I moved to New Orleans during the summer of 2003. Actually, I was only supposed to be visiting the city for the summer while taking a photography course at Loyola, but within two days of being there I knew I would be…

Re: Katrina August 29, 2005 Gone are our culture bearers, our traditions, our food, our neighborhoods and too many of our people. My home and neighborhood survived, but the spirit and identity of the city is not yet…

The Saturday before the storm, the girl I was dating at the time was in Picayune, MS. with her three younger siblings. I had just found out about the course change of the hurricane and started making plans and…