it appears there is MORE looting going on

in dc that is

(Storm watch: Hurricane Rita's path, projected this morning by the National Weather Service. Noted are Halliburton's HQ in Houston; Wal-Mart's HQ in Bentonville, Arkansas; Edmond, Oklahoma, where former FEMA director Mike Brown was assistant to the city manager, not "assistant city manager"; and Bartlesville, Oklahoma, my hometown)

from a blog in the village voice

Morning Report 9/23/05
The End Times and Profits of Doom
As Hurricane Rita nears Gulf coast, more looting spotted in D.C.

Oil speculators are pissed off this morning as Hurricane Rita weakened slightly, but they're probably not as unhappy as the families of elderly Texans who were killed as their bus exploded on Interstate 45 while they were fleeing Houston.
Monumental traffic jams — meaning more pissed people — hampered rescue crews from getting to the scene. CNN's early reports indicate at least 20 people killed when the bus burst into flames in the middle of a paralyzing gridlock on the highway. KWTX-TV in Waco reports "multiple fatalities" and adds:
Some of the passengers were reportedly on oxygen, and oxygen tanks may have helped fuel the fire, which burned for a long period of time.
At least helpless people were being bused to safety, unlike the situation before Hurricane Katrina, when the race to safety was so one-sided that at least tens of thousands of poor, black people living in New Orleans were neglected..................