Mother Nature is moving a mountain, and it's causing some big problems for residents in Boone county in northwest Arkansas.

It started a couple months ago, and last week, got much worse.  The earth is moving on Gaither Mountain, just southwest of Harrison, and geologists say it's a slow-moving landslide.

Blackjack Lane is the only way in and only way out from Nancy Seal's house, and it used to be a little smoother.  "No twists no turns or anything, just a straight shot," says Seal.

But at the end of a very rainy October, the Seals and their neighbors noticed some changes.  Seal says, "We just saw a few little hump-ups on the edge of the road is what we first started noticing, and then gradually over time, the road started angling like this."

In early November, folks with Arkansas Geological Survey made a trip to Gaither Mountain and took pictures of the cracks and sudden changes on both Blackjack Lane and Ridge Court road.  They say it's a very slow-moving landslide- the cause: "Water- all the excessive rain we've had," says Seal.

Seal has been taking pictures of the progress, and Boone County has done it's best to keep the road passable, at least by four-wheel drive. One neighbor, a land surveyor by profession, says the land has moved 24 feet to the southeast since late October.  

It's causing more than just road problems. "We were out of water for five days, including Christmas, and they were out here Christmas day and the next day and the next day in the bitter cold," says Seal.  More than 20 water leaks have been reported because of the ground pushing against the pipe, and crews finally gave up and installed a temporary, flexible line.  "At least we have some water!" says Seal.

The ground also caused the power poles to shift, snapping the lines, so the power company has put in temporary ones for now.  The telephone company also had to raise lines because they were sagging.

Residents now hope for dryer weather to hopefully stabilize their looming landslide.  "What are we going to do?  We're here and we can't stop the mountain from moving," Seal says.

State surveyors visited again last week and found the spot where the land has broken loose at the top of the slope.  They say the landslide is about 20 acres in size, and is actually an old landslide, perhaps hundreds or thousands of years old, that has re-activated.

Arkansas Geological Survey plans to visit again next Thursday, but they say any solution to the problem would take some significant engineering and would be a major undertaking.

To read the Arkansas Geological Survey report, click here.