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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.

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My Katrina story is one that I do not like to relive. It was an extremly stressful part of my life that was filled with great strength, courage, and the overwhelming sense that I was coming home to nothing. I came back…

i was affected and i lost my house in hurricane katrina

My name is Graeme I am from the westbank of nola. My mother and father and I evacuated when Mr.Nagin announced how the hurricane was going to come up the mouth of the river. This is what learned about in like hight…

I lived in Terrytown for almost two years until Katrina. I previously had lived in various places around New orleans such as Mid-city, Carrollton, the Marigny, and the 8th Ward. I got a job as a machinist apprentice at…

I were going to not leave for the Hurricane because my dad has to stay for all the storms because he is a fireman. So he told us to stay and there would be nothing to worry about. That was the night before the mandatory…

It was my eigth grade year when Hurricane Katrina struck, and i was going to go see the Whell of Fortune live in New Orleans. Of course that did not happen. With the news channels telling people to leave, the studio…

I was a junior in high school in 2005 when Katrina hit. My family evacuated to a hick town in Mississippi and we were sharing a small bedroom between the four of us. We left about two weeks after but I couldn\'t return…

I was in eighth grade when Katrina hit. My family lives in Lacombe, Louisiana and we had evacuated to Tennessee. The storm was so bad that it had effected our hotel and the electricity had went out. I remember returning…

I lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. I\'m lucky my dad even left because if he would have stayed I would have lost him. I live in New Orleans East and my house took on 7 1/2 feet of water. Before Katrina ever even hit…

My Aunt and her family at first went to the Hyatt Hotel instead of evacuating. While they were there they took care of this old couple whose family left them there. When they did evacuate they ended up in Batesville,…