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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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When I was a 16 year old boy, there was something on the news about a hurricane coming toward my home town of Vidor TX. And at first, I didnt think it was gonna be a bad one, but then it got really worst out of nowhere!…

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During Hurricane Rita me and my family fled to San Antonio. We left around 11:45 Friday night and it took us about six hours to get to my aunts house. There was no traffic until we got to Katy. Luckly we had enough gas…

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When my family found out that the hurricane was going to hit us we started packing all of our things and we went to hendrickson louisiana only a couple of hours before the hurricane made land fall. My dad woke up in the…

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When hurricane Rita hit our are I evacuated with my mom, stepdad, and my little brother. we went to a lake house near Tyler that our aunt had just bought and stayed there with about twenty other family members. it was a…

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Hurricane Rita was one of the worst hurricanes Vidor has ever had. Thye traffic was horrible, if u had to go somewhere it would of usually taken you double the time of when you would normally get there. After the…

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hello my name is pennie, i was involved with hurricane rita. it was horrible! my family and i went to kirbyville which is not that far away from where the hurricane was going to hit but my family didnt think that it was…

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a couple of days before the evacuation became manditory my brother and sister went to my aunts house about an hour or so north of Vidor. that friday my dad had to work, and he was thinking about staying, but they old him…

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To start things off bad, my mom waited to the last minute to tell me and my little brother that we will be evacuating, rather than waiting it out. I believe we left out Friday morning and I took my truck and my mom was…

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I vacuated and Iwent to louisiana and we stil gotten a little of it like one tree fell over. we went to the lake and we went swimming and we played football when we gat back to Vidor we had all kinds of trees in our…

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I found out about the hurricane when I was talking to one of my friends on the telephone, and about two days before the hurricane hit. me and my mom, dad, brother and my moms sisters family headed to Dallas but the whole…

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