Michigan alone sold 14.5 million tickets for last Saturday's drawing (so they would have been sold Thursday through Saturday). Lottery officials have said the jackpot is over $1.5 billion already, and may approach $2 billion by tonight's drawing.

Yes, lines are long in some locations, especially at "lucky" stores that have sold big winners in the past. Still, there were only 4 people ahead of me (and only two bought Powerball) when I purchased mine at a tiny convenience store in a Detroit office building at 11:30 this morning. When I bought my ticket last Friday for the Saturday drawing at a 7-11 in Orlando, Florida, there was no one in line.

In this news story, the jackpot had gone to $1.3 billion Sunday morning after no winner was drawn on Saturday: http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2016/01/powerball_jackpot_increases_to.html