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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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We evacuated to Jacksonville Mississippi. We stade there for about 2 weeks. Then we went to Mt. Belvieu for a week. Then came back to Vidor and stade at my Granmaws house unitl we remodeld or house.

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It was a dark and stormy night, no one heard a sound, no one was stirring; NOT EVEN A MOUSE.\r\n\r\nAlas! Hurricane Rita came stomping, pounding. And she scooped everyone up in a spoon and devoured all.\r\n\r\nAnd…

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I stayed in silsbee for hurricane Rita and nothing much really happened exept for some blowing and loud noises i was supposed to stay inside but i could hear puppies crying next door and the nieghbors had left to go to…

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when hurricane rita came me and my family went to Shreveport and stayed with a friend and while we were there we got really bad wether. we came home like 2 days after the storm because my brother had to go back to…

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The hurricane did alot of damage to my house and my land but the outcome when we all got together to meet back up it made everything alright. We evacuated to Hemphill, TX it was kind of weird because I didn\'t know…

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During the hurricane we evacuated to Louisiana. It really didnt hit us at all there, we just got heavy rain. A day or two after the storm we came home to see what had happend to the town and our home. The town was really…

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Hello, my name is Tye and I live in a very small part of Mississippi called Lumberton. At the time when Katrina hit, I was only 13 (I just turned 14 in November). Most people down here thought it was just going to be…

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2004 Florida Hurricane Season

By evening on the day Rita hit land, the remnants had made it up to my area in Arkansas. As tornado sirens went off, I went to the apartment below me. With nothing better to do, I called my family in Houston. So I sat…

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Red Cross coordinator comes home to Arcadia, Florida \r\n\r\nBill Sullivan headed Alabama shelter for Katrina storm victims \r\n\r\n\r\nDESOTO COUNTY--\"It\'s good to be back.\" \r\n\r\nThis simple, heartfelt statement…

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