If you saw how bad the roads were immediately after the ice storm, that's how many streams and rivers in Arkansas still look. While it may not look pretty, that's just the beginning.

"You can see the yellow there, where the trees were breaking, and they just kept breaking all night. It was kind of scary," says Joan Holsted.

The icy branches and entire trees fell on roofs, roads and power lines.

"It's made a big mess of my yard," Holsted said.

Weeks later, the cleanup continues.

"We've got them all where one car could drive through, or a school bus," said Robert Hathaway, Boone County's road foreman.

But to get the roads completely clear will take a while.

"We're probably going to be clearing roads until next year," Hathaway said.

Road crews also have to worry about trees not just on the dirt or pavement but also in the water.

"As you can see up the creek, we've got a lot of limbs and stuff, trees that are fallen over in the creek and stuff like that, and the next big rain, a lot of this will flush down and plug up the bridge," siad Hathaway.

Showers last week washed some limbs up against a bridge on Long Creek in Alpena.

"It just washed the small stuff down but we got a bunch more that's going to be coming down," said Hathaway.

Trees that are, right now, completely out of the water, could get washed into Long Creek in a big rain, causing some big problems downstream.

"Like this bridge here, it'll plug it up and wash the ends out, and we'll be back fixing the ends of the bridge and stuff," Hathaway said.

The washed out bridges and flooding could leave a lot of folks stranded or inconvenienced.

"I have to go a long way around to get out of here," said Holsted.

It's almost sure to be a problem.

"If we have anything like last year, we'll be in trouble," said Hathaway.

But Holsted is still happy to live near the banks.

"I like to go fishing and walk up and down the creek. I'm glad to live on the creek," she said.

Boone County officials say they can't just go clean up the tree debris in the streams; they have get permits first, and guidelines from agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and Corps of Engineers don't allow them to take their equipment out there. Even if they could, they don't have enough funding and manpower to do the job.

If there is flooding and damage from the tree debris, the county may be able to receive Federal Emergency Management Agency flood assistance.