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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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August 28, 2005\r\n5:27 pm CDT\r\n\r\nPotentially Catastrophic Category 5 Hurricane Katrina Taking Aim on the LA/MS Coasts ***\r\n\r\nFolks...the news continues to get worse for the north-central Gulf Coast as it…

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Louisiana Woman Documents Katrina Experience Online\r\nBlogger Uses New Media to Comment On, Learn From Tragedy\r\n\r\nBATON ROUGE, La. (Aug. 21, 2006) – “Greetings this is Margaret Saizan reporting on Hurricane…

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Watching the media coverage in Minnesota made me feel so sad. A bad gut feeling that couldn\'t go away. I remember the media reporting how a huge number of people lost their homes and some were on top of their roof…

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This is the third in a series of reports I did after Katrina with Roger Benham from CT, who helped start the Common Ground Health Clinic in Algiers, New Orleans. The report was orginally posted to the New Orleans…

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This is the second of a series of interviews I conducted after Katrina with my friend Roger Benham from CT, who helped start the Common Ground Health Clinic in Algiers, New Orleans. It was originally posted to the New…

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After Katrina a friend of mine from CT went down and helped start the Common Ground Health Clinic in Algiers, New Orleans. I talked to him and wrote of this report on 9-9-05, which I posted on New Orleans Independent…

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The first and only time I was in New Orleans was in May 2005. I was attending the Air Force Escape and Evasion Society’s annual reunion. The organization is made up of individuals who successfully or unsuccessfully…

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My Personal reflection on Hurricane Katrina\r\n\r\nHurricane Katrina made a landfall in Aug. 29,2005 in New Orleans. Looking at pictures and stories told by survivors and visitors of this horrible American tragedy will…

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I help run Tulane University\'s New Student Orientation. The Saturday before Hurricane Katrina hit was Freshman Move-In Day. During Move-In Day President Cowen made the announcement that the University was going to…

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Below I have posted an email that I wrote the morning of the August 30th to let everyone know that I evacuated to Natchitoches, LA and was ok. \r\nIt is strange to look at it now and realize how little I actually knew…

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