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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 was very critical of the people who had stayed in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina was approaching. How could people be so stupid to put themselves in harm\'s way! Well, when we were under a mandatory evacuation…

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This is a photo-essay based on my interview with Brent Stumbo, which has also been submitted to his site. It allows you to actually SEE the damages and losses discussed in the interview.

This is an interview I did with my best friend Brent Stumbo. Brent lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. In this interview he discusses his losses, struggles, and hopes.

Hello-\r\nThis is not in any relation to Katrina, Rita, or Wilma. This is just a plea from me. Next Hurricane Season, I woud like for everyone to be preapared. Start making preperations after the holidays for next year.…

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My name is Gloria Garcia I live in Kenner Louisiana And I wanted to say that my expierience with Katrina has tought me a valuable lesson .\r\n We spend our entires lives literally trying…

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When the city began to evacuate I was at work with another coworker, we had a sporting event to go to at UNO Lake Front Arena. It was about 9am when I got the call that the West Bank was begining to evacuate, I called…

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sunday before the katrina we were still thinking if we should leave or not since this was our 4th time of leaving for hurricane. me and my dad didnt want to leave , however my mom and my brother didnt let us stay so we…

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hardly had an exciting evacuation story. I left the Saturday night before the storm, anticipating the heavy traffic leaving New Orleans when the approaching hurricane grew as strong as I knew it would. I ended up at my…

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It is hard to dredge back through all the memories and emotions. I live in St.Tammany parish. I am very fortunate that my fiancée insisted on buying north of the I-12. We live right of the interstate, too. The…

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email from a colleague describing her early reactions to evacuating from New Orleans to Houston because of Hurricane Katrina