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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 street seems so hauntingly empty like a post-apocalyptic world.

A dusty, debris-covered residential street lined with bare trees and storm-damaged houses, a single red car kicking up dust as it drives away in the distance.

The street seems so hauntingly empty like a post-apocalyptic world.

Original title

Item 42085

gentilly
wingate

Citation

“The street seems so hauntingly empty like a post-apocalyptic world.,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/42085.