Riding out the post-storm

Hurricanes | With private help, families can ride out red tape and relocation | John Dawson

COPPELL, Texas—Someday soon, Anthony Weathersby's basketball coach will realize the 16-year-old's basketball talent. Anthony, a high-school junior transplanted from Slidell, La., after Hurricane Katrina changed the southern landscape, knows he's better than a junior varsity player, but he'll have to convince coaches who don't know him at Coppell High School in suburban Dallas to promote him to varsity. "It'll happen hopefully tomorrow or maybe over the weekend," Anthony says, relaxing at his Coppell apartment following the first junior varsity basketball practice.

Together with his mother and father, Irvin and Nancy Weathersby, Anthony has spent the past few months waiting on a great many things. Thanks to the efforts of a local church, housing, furniture, and a smiling face aren't among them.

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