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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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This is from an interview conducted by Shannon Gibney for the September 20, 2005 issue of the Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages newspaper (volume 26 - Issue 1294). The article, New Orleans Survivor Stories, includes many…

St. Bernard…

Notes prepared by LanceHill: \r\nThis is an account of a physician stranded at the Ritz Hotel on Canal Street who set up a clinic at the Sheraton for the police and then ended up treating people at the center. I know…

Medical Assistance,…

Audio story told by Katrice Lavie via voicemail on May 2, 2007.

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life is real differnt since katrina past.After i left there i move to geogia in its been real hard to settle down but i did it.

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Opus Effloresco (River Sermon)\r\n\r\n\r\nCome Down To The River\r\n\r\nSince original sin got all chopped up,\r\nShe is risen indeed.\r\n\r\nLuna moth came with her big purple eye\r\nJust when I believed her…

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When Hurricane Katrina hit, I was a senior in high school, and the school year had basically just started. Since I live in Virginia, no major damage had occurred, but some areas regained power faster than others. In my…

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My family lived in New Orleans before moving to Tennessee about 18 years ago. For the past 18 years we have been going back every St. Pattie\'s Day. We have close family friends and relatives still down there also. When…

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It is very regular, especially for the few months after Hurrican Katrina for everyone to be talking about the disaster it caused, the lives it took and the people it hurt. That\'s just normal to happen when something…

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a hurricane hero is some one who trys to help someone that needs help who has lost there house or has lost someone or something they love

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When Hurricane Rita happened, I was just about to graduate from the School of Infantry in Camp Pendleton, CA. I had just spent eight weeks with these guys and was training with them everyday. Towards the end of our…

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