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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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As you can see the dog was rescued, its amazing how height the water rose so that the dog had swam to safety on the roof of this building. Then the efforts of the Arizona Humane Society came along.

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I was not personally affected by hurricane Katrina; however, I can relate my experience with it so that at least, I could imagine how the victims of Katrina would felt like when the storm had destroyed New Orleans.…

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I was not personally affected by the hurricane, but i realize what a tragedy it was. I wish the U.S. could have helped faster than they did. So many innocent people lost lives, houses, jobs, and so much more. I hope…

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Lots of destruction with Katrina and some of the things that people forgot are the animals that were the last to be rescued by lots volunteer people from all over some from Phoenix AZ; I provided a camera for two…

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This is an e-mail that I sent to my family and friends after I had been living in a house without electricity for about two weeks, upon returning to New Orleans in January: \r\n\r\nFor those of you who might be…

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My wife kathy just gave birth to a baby boy 9-15-05.Just 8 days later we are fleeing form a cat.4 hurricane that is in the gulf of mexico,headed for texas,louisiana coast.We went to my mother\'s house in lufkin,and the…

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It was the second night of the hurricane, it was very hot. No water, No electricity and no generator. My kids where both sick, they where crying. I tried sleeping on the ground outside. Mosquitos where literally eating…

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On that dreadful day august 24,2005 i couldn\'t believe this was happening to us. my name is nicole and im from buna,tx and on that day i remeber i worked that day i was so scared i did not not what to do. my life before…

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Life is very different before the hurricane who knew everything would be ripped apart. my house and my job. i had to start all over it was very hard and frustrating. but after the hurricane i met someone who really cares…

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Time has passed by, it is already one year ago when Hurricane Katrina destroyed the cities and took away thousands of lives. It was another big tragedy for US after 911. I did not look at the news on TV usually. I only…

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