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Oral History Review 2008 35(1):1-10; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohm003
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Through Hell and High Water: New Orleans, August 29–September 15, 2005

Mark Cave

Correspondence: Markc{at}hnoc.org


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Abstract: In October of 2005 the Historic New Orleans Collection initiated an oral history project entitled "Through Hell and High Water: New Orleans, August 29–September 15, 2005." The intent of the project was to capture the stories of first responders who worked in the New Orleans metropolitan area during the storm and the weeks that followed. The interview process has been linked with the after-action studies done by some of the local first-responding agencies and has provided a much-needed outlet for first responders. To date over three hundred subjects have been interviewed, and our work thus far has shown us that top-down methods of documentation do not work with an event like Katrina. The almost total loss of communications made it impossible for high-ranking members of the different agencies to control or even know what lower-ranking members were doing. As a result it will be necessary to cast a wide net in our documentation effort.

Keywords: disaster medicine, disaster preparedness, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, oral history


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