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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 hearing about Hurricane Katrina two days before it actually hit. I had no idea there was even a Hurricane out there. It all happened so fast. The day we evacuated to Memphis my mom told my step dad, brother,…

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When hurricane Katrina gets brought up, I think about my experience evacuating. A week prior to the storm my dad underwent quadruple bypass surgery and was still supposed to be recovering when the storm hit, but was…

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I was living in Larose, Louisiana at the time Hurricane Katrina was on her way to Louisiana. My mother, brother, and I evacuated with family to New Iberia, and my father stayed in Larose with my grandparents. My…

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Huricane Katrina displaced many people on August 25, 2005. Many of those people are still in other parts of the country. Many families were split apart and the question of whether they will be reunited for good still…

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I was a freshman at Jesuit High School in New Orleans when Katrina hit. I remember not even knowing much about it the Friday before. I just thought it was gonna be another hurricane just like the others.\r\n\r\nFast…

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I was a freshman at Jesuit in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit. I remember not even hearing about it until the Friday before and even then I didn\'t understand how big of a storm it would be.\r\nFast forward to 2…

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When I think about Hurricane Katrina, I will forever think about the kindness of other people in times of need. We were in Houston, Texas and when we realized we would be gone alot longer than just 3 or 4 days, my…

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What happened to the older people in the city? My grandparents who lived by Baptist hospital when the storm came through could tell you the answer to that question. In the days after the storm, as my grandpa would tell…

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This was truly something that I still have trouble grasping the magnitude of what actually happened in the aftermath of the hurricane. I still remember the smells of pitching trash and filth out of our house, our…

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I live in South Louisiana, however I was not devastated by the hurricanes. I received moderate damage; flooded yards, fallen trees, broken roofs, etc.. My connection to the devastated areas is the relief effort for the…

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