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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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I evacuated prior to the storm and the levee breaks. I lived in St Benard Parish. after the disaster i returned to Ohio, where i grew up. My problem to this day is that I raised \"My Daughter\", Fathered by another man.…

Half of my family was from New Orleans; I spent a good deal of time there as I was growing up. I\'d heard the warnings about how someday a hurricane was going to come along and sink the city shaped like a bowl. It just…

As the sun was going down on August 29, 2005, my 95-year-old, invalid mother died in my arms as we tried to escape the rising flood waters coming into our house by climbing the fold-down stairs into the attic of our…

I live in uptown New Orleans, Broadmoor neighborhood. I stayed in town for the storm at at the Lowe\'s hotel. The second day after Katrina, when the public was allowed on the street, my neice and I got into her car and…

Many people experienced great hardship during Hurricane Katrina, however I did not. I consider myself one of the lucky because Hurricane Katrina did not have a profoundly negative effect on me. At the time, I lived in…

Living in Old Mandeville for 28 years we have packed many times for hurricanes. A few clothes and my precious pictures and tapes of my family fill our car & RV. We had never before gotten water close to our house from…

My cousin is a school teacher so you know for sure she\'s a tough lady and in a way she\' a kind of little hurricane herself. Nevermind that Katrina had banged and slapped the heck out of her town Pensacola. She was…

WE ARE THE MEYER FAMILY. WE LIVED IN ARABI FIRST HOUSE BEHIND ARABI DINER. WE LIVED THERE FOR 10 YEARS WHEN KATRINA TOOK IT AWAY. IT WAS OUR FIRST HOUSE AND WE THOUGHT WE WOULD BE THERE FOREVER. ON SUNDAY BEFORE THE…

This van was parked behind UNO\'s Jefferson Center, on Causeway Blvd. in Metairie, in the fall of 2008.

A baptist church after Katrina. The entire rear side of the building is washed away. This church is located in the Lower 9th Ward North of Claiborne. The photo was taken during the middle of 2006 as I recall. I\'d guess…