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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\'m not exactly sure where to start. This is pretty long, because\r\nSaturday was one hell of a long day.\r\n\r\nPlease remember as you read what I\'m describing: I\'m not asking you to\r\nfeel sorry for us. I\'m…

Sixth of 9 emails…

I\'ve finally posted some pictures we took on our recent return to New\r\nOrleans: http://dev.priorartisans.com/paul/katrina/katrina.html\r\n\r\nThere are a couple of sections:\r\na) The flooding in Old Metairie, a…

Fifth of 9 emails…

First and foremost, I must say to everyone who has responded asking\r\nwhat they can do for us: stay in touch, and remember us in your\r\nprayers. We are actually quite happy right now, and doing very well\r\nas we…

Fourth of 9 emails…

At last! After much frantic searching, my brother-in-law found this\r\npicture yesterday (again, from the NOAA website at\r\nhttp://www.noaa.gov). I\'ve taken the liberty of adding some markings\r\nto…

Third of 9 emails…

To all who have inquired about us over the last few days, I wanted to\r\npass along some extremely exciting news that we received last night:\r\nNoel\'s sister is getting out of New Orleans!\r\n\r\nPossibly as early as…

Second of 9 emails…

Hi to all...\r\n\r\nI just wanted to follow up and let everyone know that Noel and I and\r\nthe kids (Carrie and Robert) are all ok. We\'re in Destin, Florida (in\r\nthe panhandle, about an hour from the Florida/Alabama…

First of 9 emails…

I was born and raised in New Orleans; I actually was born in Memorial medical center on Napoleon Avenue which held about 40 dead bodies and was completely under water. I am a junkie when it comes to my city and its…

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A slideshow of pictures before and after Katrina to the background music \"I will remember you\"

This is a radio interview with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, just days after Katrina flooded the city. This interview originated on WWL 870am, and portions of it have been used by nearly every news network in the United…

Hurricane Katrina has been a terrifying, horrific and shocking experience for me. It was devastating to see so many of the people of New Orleans in the conditions that they were left in for so long. It still sends chills…

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