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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 almost looks like this tree is pointing the finger to the sky for what happened.

A severely damaged tree with its trunk split and splintered, one bare limb jutting skyward, set against a blue sky with a damaged rooftop visible below.

Collection

Ten Weeks after Katrina - 11.07.05

It almost looks like this tree is pointing the finger to the sky for what happened.

Original title

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Citation

“It almost looks like this tree is pointing the finger to the sky for what happened.,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3677.