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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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On Thusday, I left school early,but didnt leave my home. That Thursday night my parents and me left Vidor and went to Fred, Texas at my grandpaw camp. That morning at 5:32 I hear a roaring then a big tree fell on the…

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ok so wednesday night i stayed the night with my cousin.. then i was wokin up to go home and get ready to leave... so i packed all my belongings... pictures, clothes, the imporatant stuff... and then we had 2 dogs...…

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we left about 3 days before the hurricane and went to Waco and stayed there until after the hurricane came. when the hurricane passed through my dad and i came back home to vidor to see how much damage our house had…

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On Friday I woke up And packed up my stuff and we headed to Mobile, Alabama. .We stay at one of my dad\'s real close friend\'s house. We stayed up until 4 in the morning watching the news trying to figure out what was…

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first I evacuated to shreveport louisiana to my uncles house we watched on the news the night it hit. my dad had to stay because he\'s a cop and we talked to him off and on. so we watched and hoped that it would be ok by…

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My hurricane rita experience was not as bad as i expected. I went up to the lake to evacuate. A day after we got there, there was a mondatory evacuation for there. We couldnt leave because we didnt have enough gas to get…

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I remember that I evacuated on wednesday night from hurricane Rita. It was a terrible feeling. Thinking that you would never see your friends again, your family, your house, your school, or at least your pets. My family,…

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We watched the news on Monday and they said that we had a huricane in the gulf and that thier was a great chance that it would come are way..So in a rush to find a hotel room my mom called everyone and found one in…

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my name is chris phillips and during the hurricane i went to dallas texas and stayed with my aunt and uncle when we got back we had a few trees down in our yard but no damage to our house

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The Thursday before the hurricane, my dad picked me and my brothers up from school and told us to pack our things for a couple days. We didn\'t really think anything of it because it wasnt supposed to hit directly where…

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