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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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Daniel Graff\r\nEngl-1156\r\n26 August 2006\r\n As of right now, I am pretty much the same person as I was before the storm hit. Only a little damage affected my house, which is located on the Kenner, Metairie border. …

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Sierra Lee\r\n\r\n\r\nKatrina has changed thousands of people\'s lives. It has changed them physically, emotionally, and financially. Katrina was a major disaster that ruined cities like New Orleans, Slidell and small…

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My family and I evacuated on that Sunday before the hurricane. We really didn\'t think that we was going to be effected by Katrina, so we only brought about two sets of clothes with us. We went to Pike County Ms, which…

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my hurricane story was a really tragic one because i just finsihed my school and i was ready to go to college. I just went for a week in college beacuse katrina came aourd second week than my college cancels all the…

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Last year during Hurricane Katrina I stayed in my house during the hurricane, because I didn\'t expect the damage to be so great. After the hurricane stopped I went to check on my house and mostly was fine. There was…

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After I had finished my high-school, I moved to the U.S. when I was 17.The purpose of my travel was education, so I had learned about UNO and moved to New Orleans just two months before Katrina. It was my first time…

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What did I do, when a hurricane was heading right for my city.Well I never evacuated for a hurricane before, and didn\'t want to for that one.The storm they named katrina and she was big and going to be mean. The news…

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On August 29, 2005, one of the world\'s most natural disasters hit the Gulf Coast region. Many residents were able to leave before the storm sat in, but unfortunately many were not. My family was one of the many…

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more help could have came for those people

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My family and I were home when the storm hit, twelve trees down in the yard, thank God none hit the house. Katrina showed me how fortunate I am to have a roof over my head, clothes on my back, and food in the kitchen. …

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