Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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.

Online Story Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

My family and I went to Ok when we evacuated. We stayed there for about 2 weeks, then we went back to Texas, to our camp in Newton. Everything was messed up. We decided to go home to check out our house, to see if it had made it. The house was fine, but 3 tree\'s fell across my boat.

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“Online Story Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed October 22, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org./items/show/2125.

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Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

Online Story Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

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