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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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Katrina, Katrina,\r\nWhat have you done to me?\r\nI know I am not alone\r\nBut I\'m taking it personally\r\nYou tortured my animals\r\nAnd made them starve\r\nI couldn\'t get back fast enough\r\nNow they\'re lost\r\nMy…

Katrina, Katrina

Dedicated To: Chrisy Marie Ruiz\r\n\r\nDear Lord up so high, I question as to why, death is in the air\r\nWhen a child of your creation, pays a visit every year\r\nMother Nature is her name, has a will all her own\r\nYou…

Daughter Of Your…

Haunting Waters\r\nImprison me\r\nCapture me in Death\r\nEternally\r\nSpeak for me now\r\nFor my chance has gone\r\nMy body to illustrate\r\nAs I float along\r\nForced into Darkness\r\nRememberance of mental pain\r\nThe…

Where I Drift

If it will make you feel better to hear me say that I am fine\r\nThen I\'m fine...\r\nbut deep down my heart is broken and on certain\r\ndays I feel as if I\'m losing my mind\r\nWe were trapped in a hotel for 4 days\r\nI…

A Human\'s Anger…

I think something changed.\r\nThe power\'s out.\r\nThe water\'s gone.\r\nMy feet are wet.\r\nAnd I\'m in a boarding school\r\n543 miles away from\r\nEverything.

SLAM!

Some days the sun pokes\r\nover the horizon, warming\r\nthe treetops, birds call out\r\nthe alarm, blossoms open\r\n\r\ntheir night-wraps put on a face\r\nand sing out a fragrance.\r\nSome days it\'s the donuts\r\nand…

Some Days

WE HAS A NATION IN THE LAND OF THE FREE\r\nMUST BAND TOGETHER IN THE FACE OF TRAGEDY\r\nOFFERING HOPE AND A HELPING HAND\r\nTO OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS ACROSS THIS GREAT LAND.\r\n\r\nWHETHER IT BE A GIFT TO HELP…

This Nation United

Preparing for a national tragedy that in time will come\r\nStacked across Hope, Arkansas a housing storage sprung\r\nHouse trailers fill that airfield like a ladder, rung by rung\r\nWith this inventory of housing,…

Raise My Scorn

hurrican katrina is getting closer\r\nnext thing you know it\'s here\r\nits terrorizing houses, families,\r\nhotels and more\r\nnobody can stop it\r\nall we can see is water\r\ni turn to the left, water\r\ni turn to the…

New Orleans

I used to think America was the best place to live\r\nNow I wonder with amazement as I see it has nothing to give\r\n\r\nI sit with eyes in tears\r\nAs the media focuses on our fears\r\n\r\nThe nation sees our…

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