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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 remember sitting in a hotel room on Baton Rouge watching the images of water enveloping the city. The reports became worse and worse. I felt like I was watching a movie; that it wasn\'t real. I remember feeling that…

I\'m long-winded, so bear with me.\r\n\r\nI\'ll start by saying that I was not aware that a hurricane was heading toward New Orleans until that Saturday morning before it hit. One reason is because I don\'t watch the…

My Katrina time was a bit difficult. I went all over the south moving from place to place not really staying in one perticular place for a long period of time. However when I was in Lake Charles in a state park out…

I moved to the city after Hurricane Katrina. I did not move here because of the storm, or to rebuild the city, or because I rode trains across country. I moved here because of a woman--now mother to our one year old…

I moved to the city after Hurricane Katrina. I did not move here because of the storm, or to rebuild the city, or because I rode trains across country. I moved here because of a woman--now mother to our one year old…

I lived on the other side of the Atlantic when Katrina hit New Orleans. There was obviously a lot of news coverage. I remember that we had to write an essay about it in my high school English class, pretending to be a…

For Katrina my whole family went to the town of Tallulah, Louisiana and since all of the hotels were full to capacity. We ended up staying in a 10 room motel called Roger\'s Motels. The people treated me and my family…

I was born and raised in Africa, to be precise Nigeria and I was fortunate to be among one of the neighborhood kids that got admitted with merit-based scholarship into an American college. It took me a while to come up…

For hurricane Gustav my family and I packed up our belonging and our pets and headed to our house in Lake Charles. We were there for about a week and had all the amenities that we needed, ELECTRICITY! Everyone I talked…

My experiences with Hurricane Katrina are probably like many people. I was a senior in High School in New Orleans when all of a sudden the principal comes on over the intercom to say that we should all watch the news…