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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.

Shingles were peeled from the roofs. Almost nine feet of water covered these homes.

A brick house with a damaged roof, its shingles torn away and littered with debris, exposing patches of bare underlayment; a metal roof vent stands near the ridge.

Collection

Ten Weeks after Katrina - 11.07.05

Shingles were peeled from the roofs. Almost nine feet of water covered these homes.

Original title

P1010110.JPG

Citation

“Shingles were peeled from the roofs. Almost nine feet of water covered these homes.,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3673.