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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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Hurricane Katrina came and went and the storys left all of texas in awe. never did i excpect it to happen where i lived, i guess thats why things were so hard to deal with. My parents thought it to be best that we didnt…

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well when we got out of school i went straight to my fathers store and helped pick up and get prepared. then the next day we started heading to my grandmothers house in overton and then shortly to follow was my…

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I left two days before the storm and i went to my grandmas house it was fun the night before the storm but the night of the storm it was scary my grandma lives in a house full of windows but i slept through the whole…

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I went to tyler when the hurricane came to our city. i came back and nothing happend to our house but trees were down in our yard. After i picked them up i went and made money picking and cutting trees in other peoples…

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I left the day before the hurricane and went to woodville.There was alot of cars and traffic for miles.When we got to woodville we stayed the night threw the storm you could feel the house shakeing from the win and trees…

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The Wendsday that we got out of school for the upcomming hurricane my family left for Pensacola, Florida. My whole family left in our car with my mom, dad, sister, and brother it nomally takes us about 7 hours to get…

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the only the thing that i did during hurricane is I stay here and then went to hemp hill and started to get thing and then we got lots offid and basically we just followed it until it died we stopped in henp hill…

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so like this hurcain came to my town and i was like omg wtf?...so we like went to oklahoma and chilled at my aunts crib for like a month and she was rich so we just had a relly good time till we left when we came back…

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For the hurricane we went to the lake which in my opinion was a very bad decision because they got it as bad as we did it was horrible. The first thing was that it was like a 6 hour drive which sucked really bad i wish…

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I remember that day just like it was yesturday.i had went home that day and mom was packing all of our stuff. i looked at her and she was crying and had boxes full, as if she had been there for hours just packing and…

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