Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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.

I decide to leave because I have three kids and I had a place i could go. My kids health and mentle state ment more to me then taking a chance that the hurricane would not hit. Everyday I thank God that i made the right desion. I could not bear to think of what my kids what be going though and I could have pervented that from happing to them.

Citation

“[Untitled],” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed April 20, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/12145.

Previous Item

Next Item

-

Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

Citation