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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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It has been a year since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. The impact of Katrina took a great toll on my family and myself emotionally and financially. I would consider us as the lucky ones. I stayed on the west bank of…

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Hurricane Katrina, one of the most devastating storms in history, severely impacted the lives of New Orleanians both physically and mentally. As a resident of St. Bernard Parish, I lost my home, possessions, friends,…

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Katrina was not just any normal hurricane to me. I considered it like my old folks used to say \"The Wind of Change\". Well it had been a while since Katrina, but the memories felt like it just happened sometime…

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What I was doing During Hurricane Katrina\r\n\r\nHurricane Katrina was the most horrible event that has happened to me. During the hurricane I had time to think about my life, and where I was going with it. My brother,…

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ENGL 1156 Eun Joo Lee\r\n I was getting frustrated. I could not stand the stinking smell and the nasty insects that were creeping in our house. Cockroaches peeping here and there, fruit flies flying closely…

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Daniel Graff\r\nEngl-1156\r\n26 August 2006\r\n As of right now, I am pretty much the same person as I was before the storm hit. Only a little damage affected my house, which is located on the Kenner, Metairie border. …

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Sierra Lee\r\n\r\n\r\nKatrina has changed thousands of people\'s lives. It has changed them physically, emotionally, and financially. Katrina was a major disaster that ruined cities like New Orleans, Slidell and small…

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My family and I evacuated on that Sunday before the hurricane. We really didn\'t think that we was going to be effected by Katrina, so we only brought about two sets of clothes with us. We went to Pike County Ms, which…

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my hurricane story was a really tragic one because i just finsihed my school and i was ready to go to college. I just went for a week in college beacuse katrina came aourd second week than my college cancels all the…

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Last year during Hurricane Katrina I stayed in my house during the hurricane, because I didn\'t expect the damage to be so great. After the hurricane stopped I went to check on my house and mostly was fine. There was…

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