Cool Powerball Couple

It looks like it is going to be a dreary, cloudy, rainy day, here in Iowa City, so I thought we would start the day with a cool story. I was just reading this story at Yahoo News, about Carl and Diane Hunter, and their $97 million Powerball win. They waited four months to even come forward, as he had contracts to finish? Anyway they sound like cool people, and I hope they have long enjoyable lives with their winnings.

A construction company owner who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million Powerball prize, a jackpot won off a ticket he bought at a convenience store where he stopped to buy his wife a gallon of milk.


When he turned in the winning ticket, Carl Hunter became the largest Powerball winner in Louisiana's history. He won the jackpot in January, but the 73-year-old small businessman waited nearly four months to claim the prize.

An avid lottery player, Hunter said he already had bought a Powerball ticket on Jan. 16 at the gas station less than two blocks from his home in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie. But he stopped at the station again that day to buy milk — at the request of his wife, Dianne — and got a second "quick pick" ticket.

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