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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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Mary Naglebio.doc

Mary Naglebio.doc

KatrinaStories.doc

KatrinaStories.doc

FinalDraftScriptkatrina2006.doc

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It seemed like another ordinary day in Virginia. I hadn\'t paid much attention to the hurricane, thinking that it may have just been another storm passing by. It wasn\'t until I was getting ready to leave for…

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Should I hate the government systems?\r\n\r\nAbout a day or two before August, 25 of last year, I hared Mayor Ray Nagin talk about how secure New Orleans was and how they were ready for any disaster! Furthermore, I heard…

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I decide to leave Sunday morning about six o\' clock, Katrina was almost the size of the GUlf. The Mayor got on T.V. and said if anything happens they were not coming to help you. I have three kids to think about, I have…

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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…

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It is a year in pictures from one New Orleanian who\'s gone full-circle after the hurricane. It shows how one person has gone full circle from 8/28/05 through 8/29/06. \r\n\r\nThe music in the background sets the entire…

Evacuating Hurricane…

When I Arrived\r\n\r\n I arrived in New Orleans last year two days before the hurricane. I came at the time when everybody was leaving. I was, like all other people at the airport, shocked when I…

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The Saturday before the storm my family and I got our stuff and left for Dallas, Texas. We stayed with family members for a few days but it was miserable. We then stayed at a hotel for a week and we started to worry…

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