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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 name is Amy, I am 15 years old and I am a victom of Hurrican Rita. It was September 23, 2006 when it hit and we had to evacuate. Our family left on the 22 when it was mantitory. We evacuated to Nacogdoches that is…

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My name is Skylar Hansen and I\'m 16 years old I live in Vidor Tx. and this was my first hurricane. When everyone was notified that the hurricane was heading right for us it was a mandatory evauation and everyone was…

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when my family heard that hurricane rita was coming my dad made everybody pack because he works for energy and he has seen in the past the destruction past hurricanes have done, but on september 21,2005 we left to sabine…

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My name is Brandi Wright i live in Vidor Tx. On September 21,2005, my family and I, evacuated to Toledo Ben Lake, 3 days before hurricane Rita hit Shoutheast Texas. Altogether we had 19 people staying at our lake…

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It was September 21, 2005. Anxious, scared, excited, interested, curious, frightened; all the things I felt on this exact day. I was sitting in class with a million images jogging my brain. My friends, who were more…

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When I heard on the news that hurricane Rita was coming into the Gulf of Mexico, I thought sence I had never experienced being in this kind of situation, that everything would be alright and it would just fade before…

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When I heard that hurricane Rita was going to hit...I expected that it would make a last minute turn and miss our town like most the others do. I thought we\'d be back in time for school on Monday. We started packing our…

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My name is Danielle, On Thursday September 22, 2005 I woke up to find out my county issued a mandatory evacuation. In a hurry my family secured all my animals and packed all the cothes we were going to need. My dad had…

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I am 16 years old from Vidor, Texas. When I first heard about Hurricane Rita, I thought, \"Oh this isnt going to be bad.\" Then I heard more and more about it and how bad it was going to be. I started getting scared and…

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My name is Erica and I am 16 years old and I\'m from Vidor, Texas. Hurricane Rita hit not too long before I turned 16. I honestly didn\'t think the hurricane would be that bad, considering I had heard of hurricanes…

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