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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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The day hurricane Rita hit, we decided to evacuate to Louisiana. Unfortunately our destination was in the eye of the hurricane and the place we were to be staying in was shabbier than our house. We decided to go back…

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I live in Vidor,TX I was effected by Hurricane Rita. I went to the lake. I went and road fourwheelers.When I came home There was nothing wrong with my house.

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well i left on a thursday morning (i think). we went to my grandmas house to get her and then we were off to my uncles house and then from there we went to my moms cousins house and we stayed across the street from them…

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What\'s happenin\' guys....my name is Derek. During the hurricane I went to many different places. First when we evacuated we went to Tolendo Bend. We stayed there for 2 weeks and then we came to Fannet, Texas. After…

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During the evacuation we were heading twards my grandparents house but, we didn\'t get that far so we had to stop in a small town called center.We stayed there for two nights, the night of the hurricane and the day after…

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Me and my mom left wensday mornning about 5:00 in the mornning and went to the lake. My dad came up there latter because of his job he couldent leave early. Then we heard that it was comeing our way straight our way, so…

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Me and my parents had been watching the news for the past few days watching the Hurricane. Then all the sudden the evacuation started I had never seen anything like it, it took us so long just to go a single mile. Our…

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Me and My parents evacuated to my grandparents in Bon wier. It wasn\'t far enough end though. It was kinda cool though because the wind sounded like a freight train. We were lucky though we had no damage to our house. We…

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I found out about the hurricane on a Tuesday and were not going to evacuate until the next night my mom watched the news and they told us it was a mandatory evacuation. It really scared me. I heard people talking about…

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We evacuated to Lake Texoma in North Texas, and we stayed there for about two and a half weeks. My mother wanted to know what happened to our home so we came home. As we drove into our hometown,Vidor, we couldn\'t…

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