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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 Friday night before the hurricane, I had no idea that there was even a tropical storm heading our way. I actually had a great night downtown, in the Quarter. Me and a bunch of friends had got tickets to see a ragae…

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The blog I kept about Katrina.

I am not a native of Louisiana. Like so many others, I moved here with my parents in 1979. Hurricanes were a mystery to me until 1992. My first experience with a hurricane was Hurricane Andrew in 1992. I learned a lot…

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Most of us did not expect the life change brought on by hurricane Katrina. I know that I had no idea what would happen. The Saturday before Katrina hit, I woke up late as usual. Mornings are not my specialty! When I…

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The impact of Katrina is too huge to absorb, but also this mother\'s private nightmare. I waited in terror in Pittsburgh as the hurricane hit New Orleans. My son weathered the storm in a third floor apartment in the…

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Ryan Garrity\r\nNew Orleans, 2005\r\n\r\nThe Band Plays On\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n To be perfectly honest and believe it or not, I had absolutely no idea what I was going to write this personal essay about. I am also…

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Ryan Garrity\r\nNew Orleans, 2005\r\n\r\nMy Katrina Experience\r\n\r\n My Katrina Story begins pretty much like everyone else’s. The Friday before the storm, I went to work at UNO like I did every other Friday. My first…

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This article, published in the pediatric cardiology journal Congenital Cardiology Today, was written by two pediatric cardiologists who, with their family, were at Tulane University Medical Center during Hurricane…

When I first heard about Hurricane Katrina I thought nothing of it, to me to was just another of the many hurricanes that my brother told me about. That was our routine, whenever there was a hurricane threatening the…

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My story begins on the mountain I use to know as my life. Tall and strong, I feel as if nothing can touch my happiness. I just started my senior year at the University of New Orleans. I have the perfect job as a research…

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