Oil Clean Up Timetable

Most folks along the gulf coast would much rather be dealing with a hurricane than an oil spill. At least that way you would know when it would end. Wednesday a BP executive gave his timetable for the cleanup to end and that has a lot of folks saying they will believe it when they see it.
"Who can tell me when I'll be able to walk on the sandy beach without getting oil on my feet?" a woman questions a panel of federal, state and local authorities at a recent public meeting. It's a question that seems too early to answer and then this from BP executive Chris Sliger. "Once that relief well stops the flow of any additional oil into the Gulf of Mexico, based on the experiences we've had over the last 75 days, we anticipate within 45 to 60 days we should be able to remove surface oil from the Gulf of Mexico."
On a day when oil began returning to Alabama beaches, locals find that hard to believe. " I hope it works out," says Larry Belmonte from Orange Beach. "I'm not sure it's going to or not. I see a lot of damage down there now and I don't see anybody working it." For Anna Lee McPhilomy visiting from Jacksonville, Florida she'll make another visit just to see it with her own eyes. "I'll come back and take a look and then I will believe it," she says.
In regard to the beaches, Sliger says after the oil is cleaned from the surface of the Gulf, the beaches could take weeks or months to clean, depending on the degree they were oiled.