Laboratory Owners Battle Back After Devastating Flood

Described as the worst flooding since the Hurricane of 1938, the New England Flood of May 2006 deluged the area with torrential rain during the week-long storm. In addition to severe flooding, hundreds of roads were closed and homes and businesses suffered extensive damage. For lab owners Bev and Don Desmarais, it was a double whammy, since their lab, Teamwork Dental Studio, was located in the basement of their Epsom, New Hampshire home.

The six-year-old lab is located near the Suncook River and, on May 14, Bev and Don noticed water coming in the windows of the lab. Don and his son, Sam, raised up all of their equipment and filing cabinets to keep them dry, but within a couple of hours--to their despair--the lab was filled with nearly four feet of water! They went back into the basement and, with plastic bins floating alongside them, scooped up just about everything they could and managed to rescue their computers,...