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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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Twas an ill wind blowing on that August day\r\n\'Twas a portent of what was headed that way\r\nAll saints and sinners, aye ye better take heed\r\nOf the storm they called Katrina\r\n\r\nAll the anchors were down and the…

Katrina\'s Wrath

I taste consumers\r\nlodged in the esophogus\r\nof collective us,\r\nvomit slicks ensue,\r\nurging the children\r\nto remark\r\n\"mommy, look at all\r\nthe pretty colours\"\r\njust as a vagrant\r\ndog smells and…

I Taste Consumers…

It was a nasty wind that blew\r\nUpon the shore that day\r\nShe howled and hissed, but she would not desist\r\nShe had to have her way\r\n\r\nShe was a lady of the night\r\nAnd she was dressed to kill\r\nShe blared and…

The Jezebel Katrina

while the president\r\nis on vacation\r\nfrom compassion\r\n\r\nhis mother\r\nfingering the wattles\r\nunder her pearls\r\nfears not the corpses\r\nbut the poor\r\nevacuated too close\r\nto her country club\r\n\r\nthe…

Humanity St. Is…

Oh where are you now\r\nAll I have left of you are these memories\r\nYou couldn\'t find a way out of here\r\nA lost soul drowned in the rising waters of the tide\r\nA city swept away\r\nGod was supposed to conquer the…

Your Memory Lives In…

(Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina)\r\n\r\nThe Evening News brought this tragedy home\r\nAll the way up from Louisiana\'s Superdome\r\n\r\nThe countless people trapped and alone\r\nWith nothing to eat, not even a…

The Evening News. .…

They will not be listed as casualties of war\r\nTheir photos will not appear in the newspapers among the war dead\r\nTheir names will not be engraved\r\nUpon monuments in small towns across America\r\nHonoring those who…

The Body Count

The Cu$h / Bheney / love USA\r\nSick government stolen gangsters...\r\n\r\nObtuse\r\nKillers...and buds lie in the shit...\r\nJolly\r\n\r\nMeanwhile on the far side of Turd Blossom Street...\r\nCreative people are Given…

Blind Obtuse Money…

When the world has just gone crazy\r\nAnd all our minds are numb\r\nWe have to still remember\r\nThink the Best\r\nDo not succumb\r\n\r\nWhen we see all the images\r\nDevastation, death, more grief\r\nWe have to still…

Look For Grace

Torrential rain, hurricanes, storms in the night\r\nNatural disasters we\'re unable to fight\r\nSouth Florida withstood a catagory 1 hurricane\r\nA mild storm turned hostile, Katrina\'s her name\r\n\r\nShe uprooted…

The Saga Of…

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