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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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My family and I evacuated to the Baton Rouge area. We have family there and decided best for us to go east. It took us 11 hrs to make the normal 3 hour drive. Cars on interstate 10 east bound were being pulled by…

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Well, 3 days before the hurricaen hit, my parents weren\'t really sure what we were going to do. Well, we talked it over for about a day then finally we caem to the decision that we were going to head to Jasper and stay…

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I volunteered with a group of college students during spring break in Mississippi. I had been in Ocean Springs over Christmas seeing family. At that time they were just beginning to repair their homes. Going to Waveland…

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It all started when I was at school and found out that there was going to be a hurricane that was going to hit Vidor. Well that was the first time that I had heard about the hurricane. I was go happy just because I was…

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Well, um we left the day before the hurrincane hit vidor. I didn\'t want to leave but my mom forced to go, I tould her nothing would happen. And I was right. We left to Beamount first to pick my older sister, then we got…

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As soon as hurricane Rita was on her way i immeditaly worried. Although my parents didn\'t hurry & rent a hotel room, we didnt even decide where we were going untill the day before Rita was to hit! We packed all our…

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When we heard about the hurricane headed this way it was at least 4 in the morning and my mom came and woke me and my little sister ans we stared packing or stuff then we called me grandma and my anut to see if they…

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My story starts out in the small town of Vidor a day before hurricane Rita hit Texas. Me and my family were heading to Georgetown just north of Austin to evacuate because that is were the nearest family was that was…

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Well the day before my familly and I left we had not decided that we would leave but around 2:00pm the next day we decided it was time to go. So we packed up not knowing what we had in store for us. We decided the best…

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When hurricane Rita was going to hit Vidor we evacuated to Arkansas where a some relatives of mine had a chicken farm. We stayed there for about 3 weeks and came back. When we got back to Vidor we saw trees and power…

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