Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

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.

Last year at this time New Orleans streets were filled with potholes, but there were few roofing tacks or nails. We just had two more nails taken out of our car the other day and either the patch is not holding or we have yet another nail. Though a minor nuisance, even people who fared well following Katrina face an endless succession of such nuisances--not unlike water torture.

Citation

“[Untitled],” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed October 17, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org./items/show/4478.

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