An Iowa woman lost her home in a tornado over 20 years ago. After winning $2 million in the lottery, she's finally building a new house – with a Jacuzzi.

• A lottery winner whose house was destroyed in a tornado in 2001 has big plans for home No. 2.
• Tammy Gordy won $2 million this week and says she'll use the funds to finish building a new house.

More than two decades after her home was destroyed in a tornado, an Iowa woman is planning to use her $2 million dollar lottery winnings to finish building herself a new house – and she isn't holding back when it comes to luxury additions.

Tammy Gordy, 56, and her husband, Steve, lost their home when a tornado ransacked Wapello County in 2001, according to an Iowa Powerball press release. Since then, Gordy said they'd been building a new house but that the project had been on hold for years.

That is, until Gordy realized she'd purchased a winning set of Powerball numbers on June 25 – and that the prize was worth $2 million.

"I fell into my chair," Tammy said. "I couldn't see! There were all those zeroes! I was like, 'Maybe I need my glasses.'"

"She jumped up and was saying, well, not English, but other words I couldn't understand," Steve said. "And then I looked over, and there were a lot of zeroes. Then we didn't know what it was until we got our senses back."

While Tammy, a dietary aide at a local hospital, stressed that they aren't "material people," she did say the winnings would be going toward finally having a place to call home after all these years.

"This is going to speed it up," Tammy said of the housebuilding process. "And it's going to go into better details! I'm talking a walk-in closet and a Jacuzzi tub! That's what I'm talking about!"

Tammy won her prize through the Iowa Lottery's mobile app. On Monday morning, a day after learning she'd won the big prize, she called her boss to say she was planning to take a few days off in light of the events.

"I called my boss and told him that I needed to take Monday and Tuesday off because I won $2 million on the Powerball," she said. "And so he says, 'Well, congratulations if you're not April Foolin' me!'"

Speaking of pranks, she also said she and Steve's four children couldn't quite believe their mom's luck.

"I am a jokester, but not to that extent," Tammy said. Nevertheless, with the win, she also said the Gordy clan would be able to do more together as a family.

"Family was more important to us. So, it's going to be that way," she added. "We're just going to be able to do more things."