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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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Durring the hurrcane me and my mom left for sulphur springs. I brought my pc with me so it was\'nt very boreing. I got to see my brother so that was cool i have\'nt seen him in like 2 years. We stayed like for like 4…

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Hurricane Rita had a big affect on me and my family. My mother, sister, and me evacuated with lots of other family. Originally we planned to evacuate to Texas A&M, but then we decided to go to the lake instead. But the…

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When the news and radio sent out word of the hurricane, I was like \"Theres no way the Hurricane is going to come near Vidor\". Boy was I wrong. When the news and radio people said you need to evacuate, I was in shock. I…

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well it was a stupid thing an i hate hicks an we went to some place to evackuart an went back home an then it was destroyed an we had to live on the streets

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Whenever my parents and I first found out that Hurricane Rita was coming straight for us we didn\'t know what to think. We first got together and called all of our relatives and made sure that everybody knew. Once we got…

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i was not here during the hurricane i was living in oklahoma at the time but i had herd about it and it was very sad when people lost there home and they i just moved here with my boyfriend and his parents but they…

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I evacuated to Garfield, Arkansas for about 2 weeks and then we went to Branson, Missouri. There was nothing bad that happened to my house or any of the people I was with, but my grandparents had a tree down on the edge…

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I live in Vidor, Texas. I evacuated to Monroe, Louisiana for about 2 weeks. When we came back, My dad and me went to town and it was horrible. A tree almost fell on my house it was a close one. It was so hot than we were…

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When we heard that Hurricane Rita was going to hit us, my mom said that we were going to stay here and ride the hurricane out. Eventually she ended up changing her mind and me and my whole family evacuated. We evacuated…

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Back when I was a evacuee hurricane rita came around at my age of 16 my family and I evacuated to Arkansas. After the hurricane had passed we went back to Texas to clean up around our house and see what it was like and…

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