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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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29 August 2005 - It was a quiet morning. The hurricane came in and left. Celbration ensued between my brother, his wife, and my other brother. Yes, the home recieved water, but, it was better than expected. Where was the…

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i am a psych nurse at the orleans parish criminal sheriff\'s office and was at the prison the day before katrina during and until the friday(sept 2) after. my 83 year old father was with me because he refused to…

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i am a nurse at the orleans parish criminal sheriff\'s office and was at work the day before the storm, during and until the friday after then was evacuated to the airport by military helicopter. in addition to this i…

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My elderly 81-year old Godmother, Helen, was living alone in a mobile home in the Deerfield Manufactured Home Community in Coconut Creek, Florida during Hurricane Wilma October 24, 2005. The Hurricane destroyed her…

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My husband refused to leave for this storm. as he had done for every other one that has come our way. He has a friend that refused to leave and he was not leaving him there alone. Also if you do leave, whatever is left…

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November 1, 2005\r\n\r\nDear Friends and Family, \r\nCan it really be two months after Hurricane Katrina? \r\n\r\nYikes, where to start!\r\nWe are now living near St. Martinsville, Louisiana in a travel trailer on sister…

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My husband and I stayed through Hurricane Katrina, and while I was getting scared the moments before the winds got strongest, it passed without drama, and our house fared very well, no shingles or anything else lost. We…

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The horror of the storm is compounded daily by the outrageous \"policies\" of the insurance companies, and the utter disorganization of FEMA and the Corps of Engineers. When Katrina hit Waveland, Mississippi, the wall…

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I came to Bay St Louis with the National Park Service\'s Hurricane Recovery Team in November, 2005. My job was to help supervise the removal of \"debris\". What I didn\'t realize until I got there was that \"debris\"…

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I am on the Red Cross Disaster Team, so after Katrina I was at Ford Park everyday while the shelter was open. I enjoyed working with the evacuees from Lousiana, and the other volunteer staff and payed staff. I was also…

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