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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.

Signage near London Avenue Canal levee breach, New Orleans, December 2005

Plywood board covering a window, spray-painted with the message "I Told you We Should've Moved to DENVER!", set into a brick house with maroon shutters and a bare shrub nearby.

Collection

Katrina

Signage near London Avenue Canal levee breach, New Orleans, December 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Signage near London Avenue Canal levee breach, New Orleans, December 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2585.