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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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This is my personal essay of Hurricane Katrina!

I was one of the lucky ones. \r\n\r\nFriday August 26:\r\n\r\nFriday night I was sitting in a pool hall in Harahan with my fiancée, Kelly, shooting pool and having a good time. We moved over to the bar after playing a…

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This is my blog that I kept during Katrina...\r\n\r\nSaturday, August 27, 2005\r\n\r\nWind and Water\r\n\r\n So there\'s a hurricane, Katrina. She grazed Florida yesterday. Now she\'s moving along, ready to pay…

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October 16, 2005 \r\nGrowing up in the Midwest where tornadoes ravaged my neighborhood from time to time did nothing to prepare me for Hurricane Katrina. I heard about…

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I remember asking God to change New Orleans for the better. You know the kind of change that would bring about a revolution or revival for the renewal of the city. Remember the saying, \"Watch what you pray for!\" I…

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This was written in frustrated anger on Sept. 3rd and submitted to a national newspaper but never published.\r\n\r\n \" We traveled all day today to get from our Hurricane Katrina evacuation perch in northern Louisiana…

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My personal essay on my experiences dealing with the evacuation out of New Orleans.

Living in New Orleans, is my persoanl essay about hurricane Katrina. How it affected my family, friends, and myself. This personal account covers from the Friday before Katrina made landfall, to the Friday after.

My Katrina Story \r\n\r\n Prior to Hurricane Katrina, my life was consumed with school and work. I was a senior at the University of New Orleans and worked for J & L uniforms, a school uniform store in Gretna,…

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I’ve told this story so many times to friends, family, and strangers in bars that it’s almost like singing along with an old childhood song. It always starts the same way, almost identically, even down to the words,…

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