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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.

Items (11 total)

Victoria Slind-Flor, former resident of New Orleans in the 1980s and journalist now a resident of Oakland, CA. Originally published in The Beltane Papers, an online journal no longer in existence. The original story…

Sacred Underpants of…

August 30th, 2006 6:32 am\r\n\r\nPaul at Wizbang has a detailed post about some interesting revelations relating to the levee breaches in New Orleans last Fall (with lots of pictures).\r\nBottom line, according to…

Did Hurricane…

It\'s nice that the AP is finally correcting the non-story it ran with for two days... it\'s unfortunate they waited until a Friday night to do so, knowing full well it would likely miss the morning and prime-time news…

Hurricampaign…

March 2nd, 2006 8:38 pm\r\nDesperate to get a manufactured scandal to stick to the administration, liberals are recycling old B-grade issues in hopes of launching a \"do-over\" campaign. Like Hollywood, the liberals have…

Hurricampaign…

\r\nThis post (http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2005/09/21/the-wheels-on-the-bus-go-round-and-round/)\r\nwas picked up by major news outlets around the world - which is interesting, as out of the thousands of posts I\'ve…

Some other things…

September 23rd, 2005 9:54 am\r\nThanks again to the folks at the Allman and Smash in the Morning show. (Email me for the audio - 9MB). (Thanks, Nita Rene!)\r\nFirst, let me preface this by saying I\'m working on about 5…

Life as a Refugee…

September 23rd, 2005 7:37 am\r\nWe finally made it to Dallas around 2:00am... 18 hours after leaving Houston.\r\nI will be on the Allman and Smash in the Morning show at 7:45 am cdt this morning... Apparently they\'re…

September 22nd, 2005 4:01 pm\r\n...and we\'ve made it to Cleveland, TX... 60 miles north of Houston. This sucks. People keep passing us on the shoulder, in the on-coming lanes, everywhere. Selfish S.O.B.s...\r\nOnward...…

Nine hours later...

September 22nd, 2005 12:08 pm\r\nNoon now and we\'ve moved another 3 miles. Are you as bored reading this as I am while typing it?\r\n\r\n\r\nOriginally posted:http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2005/09/22/112740924949585726/

That\'s MISTER…

September 22nd, 2005 10:18 am\r\nOver 3 hours and we\'ve made it to Liberty, TX. So much for the back road idea. (Liberty is 45 miles east of Houston). This isn\'t fun.\r\n\r\nOriginally…

Live blogging the…