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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 to dallas i didnt lose anything thats pretty much all what happened

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I am a school teacher in Vidor and my husband is a chemist at a Chemical Plant in Vidor. We live in Vidor and we have a 10 year old son.\r\n\r\nThe day before the mandatory evacuation we had decided that we would stay…

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I was in Orange Texas with my two toddlers when Rita worked her way over to us. On the advice of some family memebers I decided to evacuate on September 22, 2005. We left around 8am and drove for nearly 10 hours and…

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This is a satire on the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board:\r\n\r\nMelba Carondelet Attends a Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans Press Conference…

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I will never forget the day Hurricane Rita decided to come ashore on the coast of Texas. The Wednesday before the storm hit my family and I decided to go through our home to see what was important to bring and what…

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http://www.ncwvideo.com/survivors_stories/\r\n\r\nWhat is it really like to be homeless, hungry, hot and sweaty, nearly broke, or shivering and alone? While many of us have seen it on TV, what would it take for someone…

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I am a nurse who stayed @ Chal. Med. Ctr. from Sun. until Thurs. evening with my husband and daughter during hurricane Katrina. All of us employees did the best that we could do in the situation to care for our…

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We were one of hundreds of thousands that took to the highways trying to outrun Rita. I work at the Johnson Space Center and the Wednesday before the storm, we reported to work in order to secure the site and prepare it…

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Story written by a student who volunteered with the Katrina Relief effort during spring break, March 2006.\r\n\r\nOn March 18,2006 at 10pm, I left to go on the Katrina Relief Trip that our school was sponsoring. I did…

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APPLICANT OF THE DAY\r\n\r\nApplicant of the Day (AOTD) is a project inspired by people I met working at a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center. AOTD is actually a collection of their stories- I hope they don’t mind; its…

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