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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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Email from Nov 1, 2005\r\n\r\nHi Boys & Girls,\r\n\r\nSince I last wrote things have improved here in BSL. There\'s another gas station and another bar opened up and on the way back from Pass Christian tonight I saw a…

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Email from Oct 26, 2005\r\n\r\nGood evening boys & girls,\r\n\r\nIt\'s another beautiful, if rather cool, day on the devastated Gulf Coast. The good news is that I spent my first night in my trailer last night. After…

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Email from Oct 23, 2005\r\nHello All,\r\n\r\nThings here move slowly. That\'s true no matter how much effort you put into them. Situations like this teach a person patience. I spent the week doing \"windshield…

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Email sent, 10/18/05 11:30 PM\r\n\r\nHi Boys & Girls,\r\n\r\nI had a meeting this morning with a Major from the Corps of Engineers. The Major said, “We’re bulldozer people. We just want someone to tell us what to knock…

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Email written Oct 16, 2005\r\n\r\nGreetings from Bay St. Louis,\r\n\r\nGetting here was largely uneventful other than a bit of overweight baggage. I knew that I was headed in the right direction when I started seeing…

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Two days before I was scheduled to come down to the Gulf coast as a \r\nvolunteer radio operator (I\'ve been a ham operator since I was in high \r\nschool) Peter Brink, V.P. of the National Trust for Historic…

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Story of Coast Guard unit aiding in the relief efforts in Gulfport, MS, published in US Coast Guard Reservist magazine, vol 52, no. 7-05.

First-hand account of a Coast Guard reservist who came to New Orleans to assist with the relief efforts of Hurricane Katrina. Published in US Coast Guard Reservist magazine, vol 52, no. 7-05

\"Unnatural Disaster\" story from US Coast Guard Reservist magazine, vol 52, no. 7-05\r\nStory and images of the Coast Guard response in New Orleans following hurricane Katrina.

I am from Dallas, Texas but I was actually going to school in New Orleans on a track scholarship. I did not even know about the hurricane until late but when I found out I left right then. I packed up a few things and…

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