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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.

Partially-submerged truck, Venetian Isles/Louisiana, November 2005

A silver pickup truck with a small American flag tipped nose-up into a canal beside a boat ramp, with a storm-damaged house covered in blue tarps and a sunken boat in the background.

Collection

Katrina

Partially-submerged truck, Venetian Isles/Louisiana, November 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Partially-submerged truck, Venetian Isles/Louisiana, November 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2490.