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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.

Same house... more messages

Spray-painted message on the siding of a damaged house reads "9/18 4 CATS URGENT IN ATTIC, SPCA 9/25 1 CAT TAKEN LEMAR," with the home raised on cinder block piers.

Collection

Metairie and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina - 10.23.05

Same house... more messages

Original title

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Citation

“Same house... more messages,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3529.