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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.

This was my family room post-Katrina.

Devastated family room coated in dried mud, with overturned furniture, a collapsed built-in shelving unit, and debris scattered across the floor after flooding.

This was my family room post-Katrina.

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Item 43249

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“This was my family room post-Katrina.,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/43249.

This was my family room post-Katrina.

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