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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.

It looks like a bomb exploded in the neighborhood.

Storm-wrecked residential street strewn with debris—overturned trash cans, broken furniture, a toppled bicycle, and scattered household items—with a large green dump truck parked beside damaged homes.

Collection

Ten Weeks after Katrina - 11.07.05

It looks like a bomb exploded in the neighborhood.

Original title

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Citation

“It looks like a bomb exploded in the neighborhood.,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3653.