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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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I am a 15 year-old sophmore from Vidor. We evacuated to Milam, TX, which was only supposed to take an hour and a half, but because of all the trafic it took us about 12 to 13 hours. The heat was so intense, it was…

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My family and I evacuated to Louisania, it took us a pretty long time to get there it usually takes us 2 and a half hours and it took us 16 hours to get to my uncles house. When we got there my aunt also had all her…

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It was Monday and as usual i went ot younglife i got int he vehicle when my parents picked me up and my parens were sayingt hat we have to by evacuation supplies and gas for the vehicles because we might have to…

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we packed our bags in a rapid paste, i didnt even have time to get all my important things. we headed out with my friend will and his family to some place called center texas. It started off looking beautiful nice house…

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My name is Kayla, and I\'m a sophomore at Vidor High School. The hurricane did not affect me much. The day we heard it was a mandatory evacuation we left towards the lake. We thought we were going to stop at our lake…

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The hurricane was pretty much the worst natural disaster to take place in my lifetime to vidor. My home was devastated by the torrent of rain and heavy winds. My ferret died during the storm because he got to hot and…

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I evecuated for hurricane Rita on wednesday, the day befroe our county was under a mandatory eveacutain. I got home from school that evening and my mom and grandma were packing uo both of their cars. Within 20 minutes of…

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I went to rayburn for the hurricane (i knowq not very far but still) i had a pretty fun time for it to be a hurricane but i was one of the luckey ones i mean i rode a four wheeler and then went to houston but i know some…

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so i was watching tv and it siad to leave, bad hurricane. so we left and when to to my aunts\'s house and stayed there for like 2 nights then came home right after the hurricane to get some stuff and check out every…

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man we went to freakin Longview to evacuate we left Thursday at bout eight o\\\\\\\' clock so we hit no traffic. First we went to my dads friends house a little out of Jasper. Then Friday we heard that is was goin up…

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