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Virginia family wins USA Today Christmas light grand prize

Posted at 12:31 PM, Dec 23, 2014
and last updated 2014-12-23 12:33:22-05

A Midlothian family has won the USA Today Christmas light competition. As winners, the family will receive a $5,000 prize!

Hunter Bottoms said that in 1995 he and his father Buck started the tradition of decorating their Midlothian home for the holidays, WTVR reports.

The display features more than 178,000 lights (15,000 added in 2014), 34 inflatables, 42 blow molds, 50 strobe lights, three snow machines and a fog machine.