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 am 21 now and Katrina hit when I was fifteen. I was living on the north shore at the time, getting ready to begin high school at Ponchatoula High school. Our house didn\'t take much damage, aside from the torn shingles and miserable two weeks without electricity. Despite the difficulties, and profuse amounts of sweat, those two weeks were a period in which my family bonded like never before.

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“[Untitled],” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed April 25, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/44358.

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Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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