Charm City, here we comeFollow

Pretty sure that was the plot to at least one of the Police Academy movies.

The rioting today has made it dangerous for my daughter to get her things into storage space not far from the rioters. I told her to stay in Ownings Mills and finish packing, and we hope she can get rest of her stuff into storage by Thursday.

Last I read it was like 30 buildings on fire.

My brother told me they're calling in extra Fire Crews from the surrounding counties in case they start up again tonight.

Johns Hopkins Hospital/University

Obamacare was going to kill them off anyway.

First I'm not a fan of the Mayor.

Baltimore is were I decided to live, when my ex was kick out of the navy. Then it was a place were I had family. We choose to live here over him taking a job in California with good pay. When we got here we had to live with my brother and his family. Christmas Eve, we learn of how wonderful the people of Baltimore are. We had moved into an apartment and Christmas looked rather bleak, with only a drawing on kraft paper, for a Christmas tree and no presents. Our neighbors gave a beautiful tree, turkeys and gifts. The school sent fire truck with a large box of food, 2 chickens and a sack of stuff animals.

This was only the first of the wonderful things people in Baltimore have done for me and my girls over the years. Total strangers have gone out of their way to help. No were in the many places I lived have I met so many people, who go out of their way to help each other.

Sure there is poverty, crime and boarded up houses through out the city, but then what major city that depended on manufacturing jobs and faced white flight doesn't have problems. The anger that was express by the rioters has been building up for as long as I live here. I'm actually surprise that it took this long to explode. When I first moved here I expected things would be worst when it finally did. What happen yesterday and through the night was done by a small angry mob that saw Freddie Grays death as a chance to behave badly.

This morning, I saw the city I know and love come out to clean up the mess. That is the Baltimore that I know and love.

Setting an aquarium on fire seems like too much work for too little reward.

How bout Roasted Sloth? They have sloths in the rainforest exhibit.

Ironically, when New Orleans flooded the aquarium was much worse hit than the zoo. Namely because the filters and pumps all stopped working and the fish died. The zoo animals were pretty much unscathed aside from getting wet.