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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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Mid September, we still can\'t come home but my father in law had special passes through the government and Entergy because he was the engineer for Le Pavillion HOtel. My husband had just gotten his agriculture license…

There have only been two times I have every seen my dad cry. Where you\'re a young girl your dad is the bravest person you know, and I never thought that I would one day see my dad cry, let alone two times in a two week…

Well, i can vividly remember riding the hurricane out in an apartment building in Kenner, La. My sister and my niece lived in an apartment on the 2nd floor so all of my family decided to go there to ride out the storm. …

When Hurricane Katrina hit. I was in Baton Rouge having a few drinks at typical New Orleans style hurricane party. I had just gotten in contact with my parents and sister who had decided to ride it out at my father work…

Left New Orleans 2-days before Hurricane Katrina hit land. My sister and myself went to Lafayette, LA to stay with our parents. Hurricane Rita hit the south central and south western areas of Louisiana hardest. At my…

When Hurricane Katrina eased into the Gulf of Mexico and my local agency decided that the Parish I live in was to evacuate, I didn\'t think anything of it. I figured it was going to be another one of those two day…

Prior to the hurricane I had recently joined a kickball league. The Kickball of the Crescent City, or KOCC, was composed of 8 teams from maybe 3 bars. My team, the Beat-Alls, was a Beatles-themed team playing out of Finn…

Martha Hart was a very special person and a very close friend of mine. During Hurricane Katrina she was hospitalized in critical condition at Baptist Hospital. Following the subsequent failure of the levee system and the…

My kids inspect our house after the storm.

12/21/05\r\n\r\nMy family and I have a small camping trailer we use for hurricane evacuations. We had a trial run with Hurricane Ivan last year. We packed for a weekend trip from home. Little did we know our weekend…