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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.

I decided to leave because I knew they would have damage because of previous storms. Where…

I decided to leave because I knew they would have damage because of previous storms. Where I live at it floods for heavy thunderstorms.

Original title

Item 4220

Citation

“I decided to leave because I knew they would have damage because of previous storms. Where…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/4220.