officials walked the shoreline daily on heightened alert. >> look when you're walking on this sand how it doesn't stick. look how it sticks when you walk into this. they hope answers and supplies come sooner than oil. >> reynolds is live for us in bay st. louis. the last part of the story there, they're hoping the answers and the resources will come before the oil. any chance of that happening? >> reporter: that's a great question. the thing that's frustrating about this is they really don't know how much they will need. it's hard to preparing for something so unexpected. one thing interesting about this particular area. when hurricane katrina hit the coastline, this area really got the brunt of katrina. what's interesting, one thing i keep hearing from different people in the community is in some respects they would prefer to have a hurricane because at least they know how to prepare for it. at least they can see it coming.