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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.

The car's not worth anything... So just put it out with the rest of the trash!

A badly damaged blue car sits buried under storm debris and heaps of black trash bags piled in front of a brick house numbered 7224, its roof covered with a blue tarp.

Collection

Ten Weeks after Katrina - 11.07.05

The car's not worth anything... So just put it out with the rest of the trash!

Original title

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Citation

“The car's not worth anything... So just put it out with the rest of the trash!,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3661.