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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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- Roads still packed, lines still long, Rita still a bitch\r\nSeptember 22nd, 2005 3:59 am\r\n\r\nYes, it is 4:00am CDT and I am blogging. It\'s truly a sickness.\r\nHere\'s the 4:00am update of this cam shot. I wonder…

Mahmoud Ahmed \r\nDelgado ESL\r\nFall 2006\r\nMs. Nixon (instructor)\r\n\r\nHours before hurricane Katrina \r\n\r\n\r\nMy friend and I experienced a horrible time an hours before hurricane Katrina had slammed New…

The artist\'s mission statement for his 15-month project.

Francisco di Santis…

\r\nOn Monday October 24th, 2005 the wind that was Hurricane Wilma made landfall on Florida\'s west coast. Reported as the strongest hurricane ever recorded a few days earlier, Wilma had been downgraded to a catagory one…