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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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Lakeviw family returned to New Orleans to rescue pets

when they told us to get out of harm way my family and i and other friends did so and every one that stay back they all said next time they will not stay, but i was in alex ander la, we could not get any thing about…

it\'s been a yr since hurricane rita hit southeast texas the day the storm hit where was cnn fox news network and the people from the weather channel they left as soon as they got word that rita wasn\'t going to hit…

well the coverage would have been alot better when the day hurricane rita hit not to keep showing what damage hurricane katrina did in new orleans and also stop showing the traffic that was in houston also where was the…

TIMELINE:\r\nFri 26 Aug P & family at home in NOLA\r\nSat 27 Aug Evacuate to hotel\r\nSun 28 Aug Hurricane tonite\r\nMon 29 Aug Hurricane\r\nTues 30 Aug Still at Hotel\r\nWed 31 Aug Mandatory evacuation to Baton…

TIMELINE:\r\nFri 26 Aug P & family at home in NOLA\r\nSat 27 Aug Evacuate to hotel\r\nSun 28 Aug Hurricane tonite\r\nMon 29 Aug Hurricane\r\nTues 30 Aug Still at Hotel\r\nWed 31 Aug Mandatory evacuation to Baton…

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As a Tulane University student I had just moved into a new house at the begining of the summer. I spent all summer decorating and getting great pink leather furniture to fill my new beautiful house. It was in this…