(WAVY) — We get another chance to win a life changing amount of money this Saturday.
If you’re lucky enough to win the $1.7 billion and decide to take the lump sum, you’ll get about $770 million before taxes. You’ll end up with around $500 million when all is said and done.
If you won the $1.7B Powerball jackpot, how much would be withheld for taxes?
So what could you do with that kind of cash?
You could buy 4,500 brand new Corvettes or more than 3,000 EV Hummers.Some of the nicest yachts sailing in Hampton Roads right now are about $2 million. You could buy 250 of them, or forget the yachts and build your own cruise ship! The website SeaEmploy found it takes between $500 million and $1.5 billion to build a cruise ship.Football is now officially here. Let’s hope your team will have as much luck as you did with the lottery because you could not only watch them at the Super Bowl, but you could also buy all of the general admission tickets for Super Bowl LX at Levi Stadium.As for homes, the most expensive recorded residential property sale in Hampton roads history happened three years ago. The seven-bedroom Virginia Beach home closed at $9.5 million. You could buy 52 of them. All from a $2 ticket…