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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.

Photo of Bayou Behind Leggio\'s home

Collapsed dock structure with exposed wooden support beams, scattered debris, and floating wreckage filling the bayou water below, with distant buildings visible through the wreckage.

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Northshore Beach

This photo shows how much debris was in the bayou behind the houses on North shore beach in Slidell. So much debris the bayou was impassable.

Citation

“Photo of Bayou Behind Leggio\'s home,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/34508.

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