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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.

This was a clump of trees that fell.

Large uprooted tree with exposed root ball lies beside a lake, its trunk and branches sawed into sections, with freshly cut logs scattered on the surrounding grass.

Collection

Metairie and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina - 10.23.05

This was a clump of trees that fell.

Original title

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Citation

“This was a clump of trees that fell.,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3563.