In 2016 Coleen Flood-Geary’s mother, Carol Flood, bought 224 portable restrooms and a vacuum truck with the idea of starting a business she and her three daughters could run. The new company would augment her husband’s Chicago-area trash business, Flood Brothers Disposal.By 2017 everything was in place and they opened their doors. But things did not go according to plan. Two of the daughters dropped out and Carol became seriously ill and passed away in 2019. Flood-Geary was unexpectedly on her own. With skills she had developed managing her brother’s podiatric practice for 17 years, knowledge picked up from
