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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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Fortunately, I was not greatly affected by Katrina since I lived on the Northshore at the time, but I will still never forget. We evacuated to family in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The images that I saw on the television that day…

I am from Baton Rouge and was not directly affected by hurricane Katrina, but was by the aftermath. The most memorable result of Katrina in Baton Rouge for me was the population increase. Many people took others into…

I moved down to New Orleans from Iowa in August of 2009 to attend school and play basketball for the University of New Orleans. Being in Iowa, the only time I would hear about the damage done by Hurricane Katrina was…

My family and I evacuated on my 14th birthday, August 27th 2005. It was early in the morning, i remember driving to Independance to family\'s house. The 45 minute drive took us from 7am until noon. When we got to the…

To say that the Hurricane Katrina in 2005 affected me would be an over statement. I feel bad about others\' situations, because I was inconvenienced at the most. My frst week of college was interrupted, I had to transfer…

I remember a few months after Hurricane Katrina I drove through my old neighborhood in Lakeview. I grew up in the 5700 block of Wingate Drive, which is about three blocks away from the University of New Orleans. The 5700…

As I remember the events of Katrina it seems as though I lived in a dream for four months. Suddenly living in Lafayette and attending another school was something I never thought I would have to do and now that I look…

The raindrops slowly ran off the windshield of the car as our small caravan attempted to flee the city only hours before Katrina carved its path of destruction across the Gulf Coast. At every stop (and there were…

My family is a large one. Dad, Mom, five kids, and Rambo, our yellow lab.\r\n\r\nAugust 27, 2005, was just another Saturday. My sister, mom, and I were at a ladies\' tea. My brothers and dad were probably chillin\' on…

I was a sophomore in high school when Hurricane Katrina hit. Although there are many stories about my time spent in Houston and the rebuilding process, the most memorable was the trip evacuating out of the city on August…