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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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A year after Katrina the streets in New Orleans are still close. There are still many streets with no people living there. Many stores yet to be opened, some of them never will again. Many schools are still not opened.…

Our family spent the first few days of the Katrina disaster in East Texas. When it was clear that we wouldn\'t be going home for a long, long time, we set out for New England, where we had family. \r\n\r\nAs we drove…

My Story\r\n\r\nI\'ve lived the last 15 years of my life in Honduras, an underdeveloped country. In 1990 we received a visit, not really a good visit; Hurricane Mitch had come to say hi. Hurricane Mitch made a lot of…

My family and I evacuated the Sunday before Katrina. We intended on staying and riding out the storm, but when we saw how much strength it had gained during the previous days of tracking it, we had no choice but…

Hurricane Katrina: My Experience\r\n \r\n \r\n My father, mother, little sister, and I decided to stay for the hurricane. Like many New Orleans people, my dad didn\'t feel the need to get out of town, and he figured…

Samantha Lanza\r\n9/12/06\r\n\r\n Katrina, Katrina, Katrina, what a tough situation. I barely watched the news, so I had no idea of Katrina until a couple days before she hit. I knew it was serious when my mom was…

\"Where were you during Katrina\"\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n When I remember Katrina pain, panic, desperation, powerless, and agony comes to my memories. It all started on a Wednesday August 24, 2005. When the news…

Ashley Segrave August 22, 2006 My husband, David, two year old son Noah, and I found out about the storm the day before it hit. We were not prepared. We left Sunday about 2 p.m., followed by some friends. We arrived in…

Hurricane Katrina\r\n\r\n\r\nHurricanes have always been particularly scary to me because I am so unfamiliar with them. I grew up in California and never had to deal with a hurricane my entire life. However, since I…

Hurricane Katrina\r\n\r\n\r\nHurricanes have always been particularly scary to me because I am so unfamiliar with them. I grew up in California and never had to deal with a hurricane my entire life. However, since I…