A winning lottery ticket, worth nearly $2 million, found its way into the hands of an Iowa woman whose home was wiped out in tornadoes 20 years ago, officials say.
. “I couldn’t see! There were all those zeroes! I was like, ‘Maybe I need my glasses.’ So yeah, we screamed.”"I wasn't sure what to think when first she looked at it and she jumped up and was saying, well, not English, just other words I couldn't understand," the auto repair shop owner recalled."Then I looked over, and it was a lot of zeroes."Agency was destroyed
“We were in the process of building a home and it kind of got put on hold for a few years, so now this is going to speed it up,” Tammy Gordy said. The couple has been renting since the loss of their home, and the $2 million prize will go toward their new house under construction in Ottumwa, according to Neubauer.
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