The $1.9 Billion Powerball Drawing Has Been Delayed – And Twitter Has Thoughts

As of about 6 am Tuesday morning, we still don't know the Powerball numbers from the Monday night Powerball drawing. There's two things I wanted to check when I got up. My Powerball numbers, and the tropical storm. But Powerball has been delayed. In a statement from the California Lottery:

"Tonight’s Powerball® drawing has been delayed due to a participating lottery needing extra time to complete the required security protocols. Powerball has strict security requirements that must be met by all 48 lotteries before a drawing can occur."

"When the required security protocols are complete, the drawing will be performed under the supervision of lottery security officials and independent auditors. Winning numbers will be posted as soon as they are available. Thank you for your patience. "

Here's the link to the Powerball website. At last check it still says 'results pending'. We don't know which state it is, but apparently there's one state still processing it's sales data. They lay it out pretty clearly about why there's a delay but we are not patient people. If you're like me, you woke up before your alarm went off to get up and check the numbers. But now we wait. For how long? Not sure. That last statement I saw said "Tuesday morning." Well, that's now. And Twitter has thoughts.

UPDATE:  The numbers are finally in. Looks like they did it around 9:30 this morning.  The winning numbers are 10-33-41-47-56 and the Powerball was 10. Now we wait to see if anyone won.

With the Powerball jackpot now crossing $800 million dollars we're getting into some serious money. As you go to get your Powerball tickets, note that Saturday night's drawing will be for the second largest Powerball drawing ever. The largest was $1.586 Billion. That happened on  January 13th , 2016. The Powerball jackpot was split between three winning tickets. California, Tennessee, and one right here in Florida.  That lucky ticket was bought at a Publix on Melbourne Beach. So a big jackpot in Florida would not be a new thing. If we can make this happen it'd be the second one this month.

A $494 million Mega Millions winning ticket was a Quick Pick ticket, purchased at 7-Eleven, located at 2980 Colonial Boulevard in Fort Myers. They'll share the jackpot with someone in California. So, someone bought that ticket shortly after Hurricane Ian wrecked the town. What an amazing twist of fortune. The winner hasn't come forward yet. Congratulations to them.

Powerball is where the attention is now. And the odds of winning here in Florida. Indiana has had the most Powerball jackpot winners with 39. That represents 9.8% of all the winners. So nearly one in 10 Powerball winners are in Indiana. 16 Powerball jackpot winners have been in Florida. That's 4% of the total winners. Let's break down the Florida winning Powerball jackpots, when, and where the ticket was sold. Then it's on you to get what you hope are winning Powerball Tickets.

Circle K
721 Chaffee Rd S, Jacksonville, FL 32221

Publix
4770 N Congress Ave, Boynton Beach, FL 33426

7-Eleven
12931 Bonita Beach Rd, Bonita Springs, FL 34135

A big jackpot ticket sold just a few miles from my house. The lady that won was from Ocala and I remember a lot lot of online scammers tried to convince people they were her to swindle people. Not sure what happened to her. Hope she's well.

Tom Thumb
5515 Overseas Highway, Marathon, FL 33050

Publix Super Market
3830 S Highway A1A, Melbourne Beach, FL 32951

State Line Gift Shop
11208 FL-97, McDavid, FL 32568

If you want to see the rest of the list, that's here. I want to stop at this one because I remember it so well. I had a friend who worked at that store and I remember her telling me what the man said when he realized he had the winning ticket. Something like "it took 35 years". I think the people who won still live in Naples. I miss E's Country Store. They had a lot of winners there.

Why not?