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Hurricane Archive

Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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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.

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It\'s bad enough\r\nthat Katrina stormed out of the room\r\nripping, snorting mad\r\ndanger simmering in her dark eyes\r\nthrowing things aside\r\nin her sudden display of fury\r\n\r\nRita, her little\r\nsister,…

Imitation Is The…

i once met a bitch named katrina\r\ni never knew a ho that was meaner\r\nshe came into town\r\nblew all my shit down\r\nand now i\'m fu$%^&* with FEMA

that bitch

The Contra flow\r\n\r\nGone with the Wind\r\nDuring the Night\r\nWe rode away, so full of fright...\r\n\r\nNow all of the people have gone\r\nTaking flight\r\nOut of their city and homes\r\nThat have no…

Alice In Contra Flow…

Oh Lord, help me so\r\nMy daughter cried in the contra flow\r\n\r\nShe\'s in her SUV\r\nShe\'s right there in front of me\r\n\r\nWe all drove in harmony\r\nAs we left from Metarie\r\n\r\nThe red necks laughed at us as…

Tennessee

K- is for the killer you turned out to be\r\nA- is for the absent, washed out to sea\r\nT- is for the terror that came our way\r\nR- is for the rescued, still alive today\r\nI- is for the impact, you smashed upon our…

KATRINA

The storm came traveling aimlessly in\r\nAnd with her a strong black heartless wind\r\nThe meanest storm the coast\'s ever seen\r\nThat battered the levees of New Orleans\r\n\r\nA maiden storm, her name was Katrina\r\nIt…

Hurricane Katrina

See me\r\nI am naked\r\nto the world today\r\nAs all\r\nhas been stripped away\r\nWithin hours\r\nmy life is gone\r\nI need the strength\r\nto carry on\r\n\r\nHear me\r\nAs I cry out loud\r\nOne in hundreds\r\nof this…

Hurricane Zone

Sometimes I cry when I think of home\r\nWondering why everything\'s all gone\r\n\r\nSometimes I cry because some people died\r\nTrying to escape from the rising tide\r\n\r\nSometimes I cry when babies had no food\r\nThe…

Sometimes I Cry

The storm came\r\nwith a name\r\nand a premonition\r\nbut we didn\'t listen, right away\r\ncat 4, cat 5\r\nKat--rina\r\n\r\nAnd we ran so hard and fast\r\nthat our gas tanks, if not our lungs\r\nwere gasping\r\n\r\nAnd…

My City Was Gone

Realizing your home and belongings\r\nWere destroyed before your eyes\r\nEnduring unwarranted hardships\r\nWhile establishing community ties\r\n\r\nSupporting one another\r\nStrangers continue to lend a helping…

Resiliency After The…

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