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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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We evacuated 2 days before Rita planning to go to Atoka, OK, when we left we had six cars in our family and as we began our evacuation and a song appropriate for the occasion, Convoy. Though It took my family and I 10…

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i evacuated from hurricane Rita on Friday when every one was told to evacuate on Thursday. At first we were not even goin to leave because we really didn\'t believe it that would really happen to us. By time we packed up…

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My story is not very interesting, My family and I were a very lucky \"Few\", who survived Hurricane Rita without any damage to our home or our property. We evacuated for 10 hours trying to get on our way to our…

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Well it all started that morning when my mom woke me up and said Loren hurry up and pack your clothes we have and hour and a half to get out of here when so told me that I immedatly called my best friend and was balling…

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About three weeks before Hurricane Rita I was removed from my home and placed into another home in Vidor,TX. I am a foster child and used to live with my brothers with a family memeber. We all heard about the hurricane…

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I am a Surviver of Hurricane Rita. Me and My family Left about two days before the hurricane hit the vidor/ Beamont area. We evaccuated to Moutain Home,Arakansas. We brought all of our animals, we had six dogs and three…

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The hurricane was terrible , I was told very urgently that we needed to leave and I was supposed to get all my essential things like clothes and pictures. We hurried out of the house and headed toward Huntsville, Texas…

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Hi, \r\n My name is Courtney ,and im a sophmore at Vidor High School. We left the next day when they told us to leave. My mom and dad and I packed everthing, all pictures, videos, and all clothes because we wanted to…

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Well, on a Thursday our city issued a mandatory evacutation, my daddy wanted me and my sister and my nieces and my brother-in-law, and his wife, and a couple of my dads friends came with us. my dad didnt come he stayed…

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hello, I am a sixteen year old girl from southeast Texas. I survived hurricane Rita. My house is still fine and all my animals survived. I am very fortunate. It took me a long time to convince my mom to evacuate. We went…

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