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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 wasn\'t going to leave for Katrina because my family never leaves. My two uncles stayed behing one is on Gretna police force and my other uncle stayed in the french quarter. My family went to go and stay with my sister…

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I live in Slidell, Louisiana. The Saturday before the storm my family and I evacuated to Tyler, Texas. However, my dad, uncle, and grandfather decided to stay and ride out the storm. I contact with my dad until the storm…

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Interview of supervisor at special needs shelters.

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Research project on people with special needs.

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This was an account of my Katrina experience that I posted for an online humanities course I\'m taking...\r\n\r\nHello everybody,\r\nMy name is Jessica. I am 22 years old. This is my third semester\r\nat Delgado. I am…

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I was in Tylertown,MS staying with some friends at a friends camp. My mom called me at about seven in the morning and told me that Katrina turned into a category five, and that they were leaving to go to my dad\'s…

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Hello my name is Emilee. On the friday before the storm hit I had planned to go to Florida to see my campanion. Well, we didn\'t know which way Katrina was go going to go. I thought he should come here instead because…

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This is an essay I did on emails collected dealing with the aftermath of Katrina in New Orleans that I wrote for a history class at the University of New Orleans. Images and archived emails are given credit where…

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Growing up in Mobile, Al I know all about hurricanes but knew this one was different. My husband is in the military , so we were very fortunate to be told to leave the city on Friday before the storm. We headed west…

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