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Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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.

Online Image Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

A house with beige vinyl siding and brown trim, marked with a spray-painted red "X" search symbol, dated 9-13, with "NE" and "0" indicating no fatalities found inside.

The now common symbol on homes that signifies survival or death surrounding this tragedy. This is our home which fortunately we all made it out of safely. The number zero at the bottom of the X represents no fatalities in our home.

Citation

“Online Image Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/197.