Nakayah Isley sat in the doorway of her childhood home Friday and watched as dozens of people cleared debris from the yard.

It hurt her to watch the rubble being tossed from the home to the backyard.

"I am sad and was looking back at all the good memories," the 8-year-old said.

Though she and her family were no longer living in the home and had put it up for sale, she was fond of the first home she ever knew.

The house backed up to the mobile home where Rosemary Rosales and her family lived and would have been hit by the flying trailer Wednesday night if the wind had shifted a few feet to the west.

Rosales died from injuries she suffered during the tornado.

The house had withstood the flood that devastated the Arkansas Valley in 1965 and survived the raging fire that came close a few years ago, said Dicie Isley, Nakayah's mother.

"We've had all the storms," Nakayah said. "All we need is an earthquake and a hurricane."

But the house couldn't withstand the tornado of 2007.

The house sustained so much damage it likely will have to be torn down, Dicie Isley said.

"I had several of my grandfather's antiques here still," she said, her voice cracking.

"I've found some of them, but I'm missing a 6-foot headboard. I don't know where it could be."