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Coast Horticulture Program Rebuilds After Hurricane Zeta By Will Graves
Horticulture students at George County High School (GCHS) are excited to be using their newly rebuilt growing facilities after Hurricane Zeta flattened the school greenhouses. When Hurricane Zeta made landfall in late October 2020, George County 28 CONNECTIONS Fall 2023
and the City of Lucedale sustained widespread heavy damage. GCHS received significant structural damage across its campus, and the horticulture program’s greenhouse facilities and plants were a near total loss. “I was sitting out there at about 9:15 when it collapsed. There was a gust in
excess of 100mph. They folded like a pancake,” Horticulture Teacher Rick McMullan told the GCHS Student Press. The strength of Zeta packed a powerful punch — one that many coast residents simply were not prepared for. Experts described the storm as the most damaging
