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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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During the hurricane my family and I went to a same town called center and it was very boring and there was nuthing to do. After that went drove to Arlington and stayed there for 2 nights then we went home for the rest…

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My family and I went to Ok when we evacuated. We stayed there for about 2 weeks, then we went back to Texas, to our camp in Newton. Everything was messed up. We decided to go home to check out our house, to see if it had…

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that wendsday we stayed home from church because we were packing. But then my dad decided to go to work and then come home and leave. We left at about 12:00 and got to kibyville at 5:00 which is normally a thirty minute…

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well i was at school on the wednsday befor the hurricane i was pulled out of school and told that we werre going to evac. to san antonio. really it was universal city just outside of san antonio. we stayed there fo about…

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We left the thursday before the hurricane hit , we left about 5:30 in the morning to get a head start before the major rush came . In mauricville we got into traffiic for like two hours but the rest of the way it was…

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On Semptember we were informed that Hurrican Rita was going to hit our home town Vidor, TX. We left 2 days before the hurricane hit which was on a Thurseday. Me and my family went to Dallas. It took us 13 hrs when it…

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I left home with my family the Thursday before the hurricane hit. The hurricane hit on Friday, but we left a day ahead and stayed Thursday night in Lousiana. Friday morning my family and I got up and we went to…

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My family had ben panicking about us having to evacuate,and i wasn\'t all that scared cause i didn\'t think it\'d hit so i went to bed that night and at 6:00 AM my mom came in and threw my door opena and i thought i was…

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Me and my family was in hurricane rita..... me and my mom and her bf\'s family left thursday .we\'ll we drove and drove untill we got to arkansas. we stayed there for like a week i think then we left to go back and and…

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i left Vidor on Wednesday the day before we had mandatory evacuation. My parents picked me up from school early and i went straight home and packed all of our belongings that we could put in our vehicles. We went to…

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