Reforming the New Orleans Police Department is a lot like rebuilding a home after Katrina, said Mary Howell, 60, a civil rights attorney in New Orleans for over 30 years.

As oil reaches the coastline, frustration grows among the residents of Venice, Louisiana. Now the town, which was just putting itself back together after Katrina, is forced to do it all over again. Except this time its residents are dealing with the frustration of having to replenish something much larger than their homes — the ocean.