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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 following is a condensed version of an oral history I contributed to the Storycorps program when they were taking intereviews in their mobile unit in Gulfport, Mississippi, in December, 2005.\r\n\r\nThursday,…

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I spent the storm on Loyola Ave. in an office building.It was me,my boyfriend and someone we had just met. I had a rental car but didn\'t have enough money to pay for gas and had nowhere to go,so we thought this would be…

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I was starting my freshman year at Tulane University in Fall 2005, actually moving into my dorm on August 27, 2005 when the rumors started circling around that a hurricane was supposed to be heading towards New Orleans. …

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As Hurricane Katrina barreled toward their New Orleans home Saturday, my parents packed some clothes, a photo album and a fire safe with important papers and photos of my late brother. I bought the safe for them 10 or 12…

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I was listening to the reports about the way thousands of people in the hurricane and flooded areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, et al are living as I was driving home and the thought came into my head as I started cooking…

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When I was growing up in New Orleans, I used to hear it called the \"City that Care Forgot\" all the time. I never quite knew what that meant, but in the last few days, I\'ve felt that not enough was known about my home…

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I have been volunteering for the past four days with the Salvation Army and the Red Cross at the shelters and warehouses on Kelly USA. I am in AFROTC at school along with the Arnold Air Society on campus. Having worked…

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On Friday night, I decided that I just couldn\'t watch the devastation on the news any longer. \r\n\r\nAfter calling the San Antonio Red Cross headquarters and not being able to get through, I simply drove straight…

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What had originally started out as a fun get-away trip turned into a run for my life. My friend and I went to New Orleans for her birthday, which we had planned long in advance without any idea that days later the city…

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On Friday night myself and Leo Casanova, both of the Graduate Political Science Association @ UTSA, decided that we would participate in the relief effort by volunteering at Kelly USA. \r\n\r\nOn Saturday we were there…

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