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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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University of Virginia New Orleans Journals\r\n\r\nTuesday, January 10, 2006\r\n\r\n Jonathan Flax, College of Arts & Sciences\r\n\r\nFollowing an intense Monday gutting two homes in the hard-hit lower ninth ward, five…

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University of Virginia New Orleans Journals\r\n\r\nWednesday, January 11 , 2006\r\n\r\nGinger Friar, School of Engineering and Applied Science\r\n\r\nSo far the people here have been very gracious to our group; today was…

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University of Virginia New Orleans Journals\r\n\r\nTuesday, January 10, 2006\r\n\r\n\r\nJoel Morgan, School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Madeleine Rowan, College of Arts and Sciences\r\n\r\nToday we went to…

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University of Virginia New Orleans Journals\r\n\r\nFriday, January 13, 2006\r\n\r\nCatherine Neale, College of Arts & Sciences\r\n\r\nWe moved to the cafeteria floor last night. The Drexel Auditorium where we spent the…

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University of Virginia New Orleans Journals\r\n\r\nThursday, January 12, 2006\r\n\r\nKathryn Serra , College of Arts & Sciences\r\n\r\nToday we gave our lungs, though not our arms, a deserved day of rest. Xavier Prep,…

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Wednesday, January 11 , 2006\r\nConnor Sullivan, College of Arts & Sciences\r\nUniversity of Virginia\'s New Orleans Journals\r\n\r\nWe spent Wednesday morning finishing our work on the house of Xavier Prep’s guidance…

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This is the narrative story of the 200 New Orleans college students who moved to Lake Charles, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, and only days later were forced to move again due to Hurricane Rita.

Hi, I\'m Marilyn and we live in the Pine Forest area north of Vidor, TX. We left on Thur. morning with 4 cars and 20 people to go to our safe spot above Lake Sam Rayburn. By 3:00 am Fri. my son and step-son joined us. My…

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I don\'t live in New Orleans, I live Northern VA. But like so many people I watched in astonishment as the federal govt. not only failed to act, it denied what was obvious on my TV screen. \r\n\r\nIt\'s the legacy of 30…

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The first time I heard about Katrina, I was sitting in a Mexican restaurant in Charlottesville, VA, celebrating a friend\'s birthday. I\'d just gotten in from New Orleans a week before to start my fall semester at the…

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