When Hurricane Katrina was bearing down on New Orleans inAugust 2005, most people were thinking of evacuating to higherground.

Charlotte Edmonston, a high-net-worth producer working in BatonRouge, La., was thinking about eggs. Faberge eggs, to be exact.

One of her high-net-worth clients living in the path of theoncoming category 5 hurricane happened to own the largestcollection of rare Faberge eggs outside of Russia: a collection sovast that it can hardly be valued, let alone insured for anyreasonable amount, she says.

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