Small southeast Georgia hamlet of Portal has been buzzing after Georgia Lottery officials said Saturday that the winning tickets to the $270 million Mega Millions drawing was purchased at a convenience store there.

The winning ticket from Friday night’s drawing was bought at Flash Foods 70, Tandi Reddick, Georgia Lottery spokesperson confirmed for the Associated Press. Portal is about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta.

“We’re very excited – it’s caused a buzz in this small town,” Billy Hodges, general manager of Clyde’s Market 70, from where the winning ticket was purchased, said quoted by the AP.

The ticket is said to belong to Robert Harris, a 47-year-old iron worker, who told Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez Monday he picked the winning numbers (7,12,13,19,22, plus the Mega Ball number 10) based on his grandchildren’s birthdays. Harris and his wife, Tonya, had been living in a trailer in the tiny town of Portal, and records show they had declared bankruptcy twice.

“I’m too happy and confused right now to think too clear,” Harris told local newspaper, Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Harris is expected to present the winning ticket so the Georgia Lottery could officially confirm it.

Other 36 people who got all five numbers, but missed the Mega Ball number 10, collected 250,000 dollars each. Another 24,000 got the Mega Ball correctly, but only four of the five numbers, therefore won 10,000 dollars each.
 
If Harris chooses the cash option, he will receive a lump sum of $164 million. Under the lottery’s annuity option, the winner would receive about $10.3 million a year for 26 years.

Harris’ chances to win the grand prize were 1 in 175 million.