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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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These are pictures of the inside and outside of the House. After Katrina, of course. It was Beautiful before that.\r\nSad. I tried to salvage what I could, but I was the only one there and had to help my elderly…

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Courtney Egan has created multimedia works with bottlecaps, cigarette butts, and bras, but now she spends inordinate amounts of time in front of a computer. Her video collages have shown in galleries and at festivals in…

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21 months after Katrina, I ran into a neighbor on Touro and Urquart. She was worried about being able to find an apartment in our area, given that rent for a single shotgun down the block was a staggering 1400 dollars a…

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My mom and dad, Emile Jr. and Delores Artus, who lived in New Orleans in one of the lowest areas of town (near Robert E. Lee and the London Ave. Canal), were flooded out of their house on Aug. 29, 2005, the day of…

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During the evacuation, my husband and I made the \r\nheart-breaking choice of leaving our 7 cats behind.\r\n\r\nWe live off of Chef Hwy. and Downman Rd. The house is over 50 years old. It had never flooded. Reasoning…

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My brother, John O. Schreve, evacuated a few hours after I evacuated with my elderly parents, daughter, and son-in-law. We had planned to stay at a facility in Jasper, but FEMA then directed all of Jasper to evacuate,…

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I FEEL SO BAD THAT THE STORM HIT THEM THERE WAS NOTHING THEY COULED DO I LIVE HERE INN SARSOTA AND IM WHITH ALL OF YOU AND YOU CAN EMAIL ME ANYTIME I WILL ANSER VERY FAST TELL GODS KIDS THAT HE LOVES THEM GOD BLESS YOU…

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I feel that we have been throw a lot and we should have no more hurricanes because they are a harm to our state .even though we still get through it .But my life has been good ever since the hurricanes we have been…

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