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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 family and I were displaced in Baton Rouge for 3 and a half weeks. Driving back and forth from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, we experienced and witnessed many hardships along the way. People throughout the city were…

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When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast I had to\r\nevacuate somewhere else from the storm.When I had \r\nto evacuate,I took some books,my psp,computer, and some toys.I lived in Tanglewood apartments.

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My family stayed for the Hurricane. We lived on the Northshore at the time, so evacuation was not mandatory. Watching and waiting became the two things that I had to do. My family and I were not harmed, although we had…

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Like many others my family and I decided to evacuate the Sunday before Katrina hit my home parish of St. Bernard. Watching from the news, everything seemed so surreal to me. I didn\'t believe it when everyone said…

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Hurricane Katrina hit the first weekend of my senior year of highschool. I got my senior ring on Thursday, went to the first football game on Friday, got asked to the ring dance on Saturday, and was crammed into the…

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While traveling from Rome, Italy to Dusseldorf, Germany, I learned of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina from the widely publicized photo of the Superdome. Upon arriving to Dusseldorf, I had hope to receive a new…

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I was living in Colorado when hurricane Katrina devestated New Orleans. Although I did not lose any posessions it had huge affect on me and my friends. A high school buddy of mine was living in New Orleans the time of…

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It was my very first week in college. I\'d left a week before the storm to attend Southeastern Lousisina University. During the time in Hammond my cares and thoughts were completely consumed with what am I going to wear…

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When thinking back on my experience during Katrina, it wasn\'t all that bad. Besides being stuffed into a small college student\'s apartment with 10 other family members and 6 animals, the evacuation experience itself…

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