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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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The hurricane affected everyone in America, not only in the south. I think it made people relize how life is so unexpecting and showed the world how the Us could come together and help the victims. America needs to stand…

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What do I remember? Well I remember it was on the news. People were driving away from home so that they won\'t get hurt from the hurrican. Some of the people don\'t want to leave. It was sad for those people down there.…

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Sitting in the dark, watching a tiny hand held TV..seeing all the people in N.O - crying, dying..screaming for aid. Almost 2 weeks our family went without power or water....but the memories of what I saw in that hand…

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It depends on your living environment. A year ago, I lived in Bejing. It is a Chinese speaking world. Evrything is Chinese. Everybody has the same logical mind and the same cultures and even shared with a common memmory.…

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the media coverage was very accurate. they had shown the devastion and damage the hurricane had done. they covered stories of individuals, which gave the rest of america a feel of what had happened. although they didnt…

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For decades, the citizens of New Orleans and southern Louisiana relied on Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Thousands of physicians have been trained at “Big Charity” and many of them settled in the New Orleans…

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It made my life very stressful..because i lost my house in St. Bernard and i had noting to go back to. I had to move to texas for a while then i moved back down here and I never saw my friends in months....Life is all…

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We evaccuaated to Atlanta, GA were my older sister lives and it took over 24 hrs to get there and I can barley find my way to sulphur from home and I had to drive and follow my mom but, thank goodness my uncle was with…

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I do not know anybody in New Orleans nor am i connected to it in any way i am just writing to express how i think the government is dealing with the situation. One year after hurricane Katrina passed only 5% of the…

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I\'m a student at Dillard University. This was my first semester that I\'d be on my own. I had just moved into the house I was renting from a family friend and was finally getting settled in after about two weeks. I…

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