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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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After Katrina had made her visit to the middle of the Gulf coast the last thing we wanted to see was anohter lady come traveling west into the Gulf. We watched closely and at the time I was working nights and just about…

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This is a journal of my personal experience during and after the hurricane.

I am a stroke victim, I can not drive.\r\nI walk only with a walker. 40 or so\r\npeople in our assisted Living complex were\r\nabandoned by the Apartment management.\r\nI endured Hurricane Rita and survived in…

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I remember like it was yesterday. I was a victim of Hurricaane Rita. The newsmen were following it for a week, and They kept saying my hometown, Vidor, was going to be ok, and that we had nothing to worry about, it was…

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ok...my name is ashley tassin and i live in vidor texas. on september 24, 2005, hurricane rita hit our area. we evacutated on wednesday night...the traffic to get out of town was unsanely horrible, so we had to leave at…

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My name is Trevor I was in hurricane rita I am a Sophmore at Vidor High School. Three days before the storm I started to worry like all the other people on the Texas gulf that the hurricane was going to come and it did…

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My name is Brenda, I was in hurricane Rita. I am a sophemore at Vidor High School. I found out at school that a hurricane was coming towards Texas. When I went home I found out that we had a manditory eveacuation. They…

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Hello my name is Mallorie I was involved in hurricane Rita.So the week of the hurrican the school wasn\'t gonna let us out of school cause they thought that it was just going to pass on by us but it didn\'t. And my mom…

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When hurricane Rita came we evac. We went to the lake because. Everbody was to tired to to drive any further. So we stayed at our lake house. I was the longest drive of my life cause the traffic was really really slow.…

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We left two before the hurricane we went to Tyler Tx. with the rest of my family one fo my aunt left vidor one day before the hurricane she told us that she saw alot of people pushig thier cars because they are out of…

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