BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - After Hurricane Katrina, Baton Rouge became a refuge for families from New Orleans. Trying to find a home became a new challenge. Jill Roby was only a couple of years in as a realtor when it happened.

“The city says you have to leave, but you can’t come back, so you have no idea what it is that’s left,” Roby says. “Our market was flipped upside down.”

Homes were flying off the market. Roby says they had never seen anything like it, and haven’t since. The panic buying. Roby says the population of Baton Rouge doubled after Katrina.

“There were grown men crying because they couldn’t care for their families, they didn’t know what to do, how, where are we gonna live, what are we gonna do, how am I gonna run a business,” Roby says. “If they could, they would buy it -

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