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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 (18 total)

My mom and dad, Emile Jr. and Delores Artus, who lived in New Orleans in one of the lowest areas of town (near Robert E. Lee and the London Ave. Canal), were flooded out of their house on Aug. 29, 2005, the day of…

During the evacuation, my husband and I made the \r\nheart-breaking choice of leaving our 7 cats behind.\r\n\r\nWe live off of Chef Hwy. and Downman Rd. The house is over 50 years old. It had never flooded. Reasoning…

I am a psychiatrist and was working in Houston during Katrina and Rita. I remember going to the local Salvation army to help. Very few doctors were there. I was one of the first, largely because my father was a…

I am sixty-three years old, and never before Katrina, have I evacutated for a hurrican. I live in the New Orleans metropolitan area (Metairie, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana). When I realized how large and dangerous this…

My story is similar to those of hundreds of thousands of victims who suffered from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I had an aunt who lived in New Orleans with her three kids, Two sons and a daughter. She owned a…

A brief remembrance of Holly Beach, Louisiana, which was totally destroyed by Hurricane Rita.

Its been a year and a half since Rita destroyed my childhood home and misplaced my parents. We are from Sulphur,LA. You moght call us some of the lucky ones. After the storm, my parents came to stay with me in Lake…

November 17, 2005 \r\nI\'m a St. Bernard Parish evacuee. I never imagined I would be referring to myself and my family as evacuees for this length of time - it\'s been 11 weeks. The TV channel is set to the news,…

I\'m African American. I was born in Louisiana, but hadn\'t been back since 1964, when my family moved away. After Katrina, I went back (twice), to help. I\'m kind of older, and I feel that the most help I was able to…

I was part of a team of 18 individuals who traveled to New Orleans from Mt. Sinai United Church of Christ on Long Island NY to help rebuild/repair some of the damage. We were there for a week in October and were…