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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- It seemed to come out of nowhere, but within minutes residents across El Paso County knew what they were dealing with as a major rain storm pounded the region Tuesday causing flash flooding in creeks and along major road ways.

Meanwhile At FOX21 News things were just beginning to go from bad to worse, as ten minutes before our 6:30 newscast water began running down the inside of the studio's north wall, causing the office to flood and equipment to fail.

"We believe a bird's nest clogged the drain up, and the drain filled with water with the amount of rain we got, and backflowed into the studio," FOX21 Assistant Chief Engineer Roger Perales said.

By 7:30 Tuesday night the majority of our studio was flooded with around two inches of water, leaving us no choice but to shut down all our electronic equipment and rework our 9:00 newscast.

With nothing else but a live truck, a camera, and one microphone, FOX21's Joe Cole, Terry Gerbstadt and Cris Ornelas brought viewers 23 minutes of news and weather at 9:00; all with no scripts, just raw video of what we were experiencing.

Meanwhile Perales and the rest of the FOX21 team worked to get the studio cleaned up and back to normal.

A roofing company was called in to check the building out, and a water damage restoration team came to the rescue, clearing out the water and setting up fans to dry us out.

"We did have to move the interview set to get it away from the walls because that is where most of the water was, and with a coordinated effort we have gotten a lot of it out of the way, and I think we did pretty well keeping the equipment safe," Perales said.

Wednesday the clean up continued, and despite having little to work with, the FOX21 News Team spent the day gathering news.

Through it all though, we are thankful the damage was not worse, and that nobody was hurt in the mess.

"Most of the equipment in here is plugged in and turned on, and it has electricity supplied to it all the time, and if any of the circuits had gotten wet with the amount of water we had, it could have caused a serious threat to life," Perales said.