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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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I live on Cape Cod and am a full time graduate student at Boston College working on dual degrees in Social Work and Pastoral Ministry. I am also on the greater Boston advisory board of the Salvation Army. I redeployed…

Operation Helping…

I live on Cape Cod and am a full time graduate student at Boston College working on dual degrees in Social Work and Pastoral Ministry. I am also on the greater Boston advisory board of the Salvation Army. I redeployed…

Operation Helping…

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Saturday, September 03, 2005\r\nKatrina\'s Impact Analysis Issues\r\nThe casinos that once operated on floating barges in Mississippi and now litter the landscape of what was once a pristine gulf coast are a stirring…

Katrina\'s Impact…

I lived in the City of Chalmette, La. when Katrina arrived. My neighbor/landlord appeared on my front door step at 6:00 AM Sunday morning pleading with me to leave. Chalmette lies below the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans…

i was aone and nothin was happenin then it started i got blown against a wall and it really hurt but then i cryed and cryed and cryed until i remember wakin po om the floor su, werte i didint know and i all i cud see was…

When I look at this photo I think about how drastically different my life would be if I experienced such an event. The picture just shows how the things that we all do on a regular basis can be dramatically changed by…

This attached word document is a draft of the annual report of Student Hurricane Network activities. It was sent out in an email to the SHN Leadership Comittee on October 3rd, 2006 by Morgan Williams. The text of the…

Rough Draft of SHN…

My Dad grew up in New Orleans and he moved here when he was 18. His family stayed there I went there as a child but barely remember. When I found out that my family had to be relocated from their home it broke my heart,…

Between a cluster of broken and drowned trees, sits a fairly expensive looking boat. A fallen telephone wire lays in front of it and other various wreckage is scattered everywhere. There\'s no water in sight, but it is…