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.

we chose to stay by our homes and family...My mom lived one block over and we boarded up her place and she stayed with us...I had just had a heart attach and we were nervous about being on the road, so we chose to stay, you know close to the hospital...so we shuttered the windows and rode out the storm....it ws an experiance we will never forget.

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“[Untitled],” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed April 27, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/12285.

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Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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