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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.

Plea for FEMA help at Eden Isles, Slidell/Louisiana, November 2005

Damaged garage door with broken window panes, spray-painted with messages reading "FEMA WHERE ARE YOU? WE NEED HELP ALSO" and "FEMA FEMA WHERE ARE YOU?" on a house numbered 130.

Collection

Katrina

Plea for FEMA help at Eden Isles, Slidell/Louisiana, November 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Plea for FEMA help at Eden Isles, Slidell/Louisiana, November 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2475.