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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 Brittany Parrott and this is a true story about my trip when Hurricane Rita was coming torward us. At the time I was living in Kountze, Texas when I found out that it was a manditory evacuation for hurricane…

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During the evacuation my family and I evacuated to my unlces summer house in Leona, Texas. We stayed in a 2 bedroom trailer with 32 people! My family along with several other families had to sleep outside most of the…

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I am 16 years old and from VIdor, Texas. When my family heard about the hurricane, we were all very scared. People had different opinions about the hurricane. Some thought that it was going to hit and others thought not,…

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My Name is Ashley Chesser, and i am 15 years old. This past September i experienced what ended up being a life changing situation. On September 21,2005 I evacuated to Lake Sam Rayborn 3 days before hurricane Rita hit…

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I am Adam Smith. I live in west Vidor. We evacuated the day the hurricane hit the coast. We went to my great aunts house in Colemesneil. Me and ny brother stayed in her shed which wasn\'t very sturdy, but we made it…

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We left the day of the hurricane and came back the next day and everythingwas destroyed it was very bad. My family and i stayed without a generator and canned food and MRE\'s for the next 3 weeks. It wasnt that bad…

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When I heard about the hurricane comiong, no one really believed me about how we would have to evacuate. I\'m from Gulfport Mississippi orginally,I KNOW hurricanes mean business, after surving hurricane George years ago…

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During the hurricane my family and i went to my grandmothers house which is in Louisiana she lives about thirty minutes away from Monroe we stayed there for about two weeks then we came back to or house in Texas the…

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my family decided to leave last minute.we didnt plan on leaving at all but i have one of those mothers who freak out over everything so we\'ll do pretty much anything to keep her quiet! dad had some distant cousins in…

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Wednesday, September 21st, when I got home from school, my mom told me to start packing. I went in my room and grabbed everything that i wanted to bring w/me. We loaded everything up in the car. We got on the internet to…

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