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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.

Displaced residents leaving after checking up on their houses, Irish Bayou/Louisiana,…

Two women walk away from a severely storm-damaged house with plywood-patched walls, a collapsed carport, and debris scattered across the yard; address numbers "3006" and "2993 Ridgeway" are handwritten on the siding.

Collection

Katrina

Displaced residents leaving after checking up on their houses, Irish Bayou/Louisiana, November 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Displaced residents leaving after checking up on their houses, Irish Bayou/Louisiana,…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2496.