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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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For nine years my husband and I have lived Uptown in a small Victorian cottage that sits five feet above sea level, and we always laughed at those who evacuated for hurricanes. Our bravado changed to fear, however, when…

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I had known that Hurricane Katrina was coming for Louisiana prior to the evacuation warnings, but when Hurricane season rolls around each year, I tend to get excessively vigilant. And by that I mean that as soon as I…

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Disaster is not a strong enough word to describe the events that have occurred over the last few months. Nothing and no one could predict what was about to happen to our cities and our people. Catastrophes of such…

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my hurricane Katrina story started at the Fairmont hotel in New Orleans.

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This is an essay I wrote describing my experiences in Slidell before, and after Hurricane Katrina struck.

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As I write this personal statement, I am sitting in a hospital bed in a small rented home in Baton Rouge. Two months ago, I would never have imagined that my family and I would be in this position. To understand what I…

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As I write this personal statement, I am sitting in a hospital bed in a small rented home in Baton Rouge. Two months ago, I would never have imagined that my family and I would be in this position. To understand what I…

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\r\nA lot has happened since I last dropped a note. This has the\r\npotential to be a pretty long and poorly organized note (aren\'t they\r\nall), as I\'ve got a bunch of thoughts juggling around in my mind. So\r\nread…

Ninth of 9 emails…

Its been a little while since I gave everyone an update. \r\n\r\nHopefully, all of the same phone numbers will continue to work -\r\nincluding my cell phone which is receiving calls pretty reliably now.\r\n\r\n6 weeks…

Eighth of nine…

Just thought I\'d pass along a quick note to let everyone know that we\r\nsurvived yet another brush with a hurricane. We discovered two things\r\nabout our Baton Rouge house: it leaks like a sieve, and its located…

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