Government simulation: 61,290 deaths

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Planners looked at what could happen if a Category 3 hit

Saturday, September 10, 2005 Posted: 0227 GMT (1027 HKT)


WASHINGTON (AP) -- As Katrina roared into the Gulf of Mexico, emergency planners pored over maps and charts of a hurricane simulation that projected 61,290 dead and 384,257 injured or sick in a catastrophic flood.

According to projections in the federally sponsored project, the flood would leave swaths of southeast Louisiana uninhabitable for more than a year.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/09/katrina.planners.ap/index.html