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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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I am 53, have lived in Gulfport all my life, and sat through Hurricane Camile with a 200 mph wind blowing through the house, and thought I knew what a hurricane was... But I had a lesson to learn. Our home was 115…

Life as I remember it. Totally different. The beach was completely whipped out and all my younger memories are gone. Many of my friends and family lost their homes. It is totally different now. Condos are becoming a…

Not having visited New Orleans ever in life, I was still shocked and sad to hear about hurricane Katrina and Rita last year. I feel that reconstruction has been progressing, but not as well as it should. I understand the…

life after i was in kartina it was hard. Moving from one place to place. It hurt to go back home and wat happen.

\r\n I am a former New Orleans resident and husband of a Louisiana Native. I have many family and friends in New Orleans. I had just returned from a trip in early August to attend the wedding of my brother-in-law.…

Video of an exhibit featured at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware in Feb. 2006 and at the New Orleans Museum of Art in April 2006. It displays the works of art students from Solis, Boudreaux and Terrytown elementary…

Friday night before the storm I came home to my Midcity apartment and noticed I needed gas for my truck. I decided to get it on the way to work the next morning. I relaxed that night thinking the first week of classes…

TheDrive_July06_Release.doc

The Will to Rebuild\r\nDirector: Katherine Kennedy\r\nDuration: 9:37\r\n\r\nCollege students from New Orleans\' universities were scattered to hundreds of other schools last fall after Hurricane Katrina closed their…

One year later I don\'t remember very much from the hurricanes beyond the news images of the destruction of New Orleans. Two stories stick out a little more than the others. \r\n\r\nOne was a clip of a reporter…