"I think it was probably the start of healing for the community, " Debby Goss, a Shawnee, Oklahoma, resident, said about the prayer service.

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Part of Interstate 40 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, was shut down in both directions Sunday night after a tornado touched down there, overturning multiple tractor-trailers.

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"My mind is, like, blown, completely blown, " said Jessie Addington, 21, who found that few pieces of her childhood home in Shawnee, Oklahoma, were still standing Monday.

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Anthony Shawnee Hospital in Shawnee, Oklahoma, said spokeswoman Carla Tollett.

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Two men, both in their 70s, were confirmed dead as a result of an earlier tornado that hit Shawnee, said Elliott, the spokeswoman for the state medical examiner's office.

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Hinthorne, 40, of Topeka, was killed Saturday afternoon in a single-vehicle crash and rollover on the Kansas Turnpike as snow was falling in Shawnee County, the Kansas Highway Patrol said.

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Ethan Mignard, who works in Shawnee, told CNN's iReport that the stark landscape in nearby Dale, Oklahoma, after the storm passed looked like something he'd only seen before on TV.

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The remote and rugged Shawnee National Forest attracts hikers, campers and horseback riders, and offers a stark contrast to the rest of a state that largely has been plowed, paved or suburbanized.

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CNN's Nick Valencia reported from Shawnee, Oklahoma.

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