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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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Hurricane Katrina hit the first weekend of my senior year of highschool. I got my senior ring on Thursday, went to the first football game on Friday, got asked to the ring dance on Saturday, and was crammed into the…

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While traveling from Rome, Italy to Dusseldorf, Germany, I learned of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina from the widely publicized photo of the Superdome. Upon arriving to Dusseldorf, I had hope to receive a new…

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I was living in Colorado when hurricane Katrina devestated New Orleans. Although I did not lose any posessions it had huge affect on me and my friends. A high school buddy of mine was living in New Orleans the time of…

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It was my very first week in college. I\'d left a week before the storm to attend Southeastern Lousisina University. During the time in Hammond my cares and thoughts were completely consumed with what am I going to wear…

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When thinking back on my experience during Katrina, it wasn\'t all that bad. Besides being stuffed into a small college student\'s apartment with 10 other family members and 6 animals, the evacuation experience itself…

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In St. James my aunt and uncle from Chalmette came stay with us. We were at my grandpa;s house and he was in a hospital in New Orleans having surgery. We loss power at around 1 a.m. before the storm even hit land. We…

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I remember Hurricane Katrina well. I was one week into my second semester of college at the University of New Orleans. I was living with my grandparents in New Orleans East. My grandparents decided not to evacuate for…

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