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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.

My Street

Aerial view of a flooded residential neighborhood with rooftops and trees poking above brown water, beside a levee-lined canal where emergency vehicles and construction equipment are gathered near a breach.

This is my street. The canal is in my backyard. When this image came on the news I saw my home submerged under water. I was 14 years old.

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“My Street,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/45948.

My Street

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