Ole Baw Austin Lewis riding out Hurricane Laura on his tugboat

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Austin Lewis is riding out Hurricane Laura on his tugboat in Hackberry, Louisiana -- and he's now sitting in the eye of the hurricane.

Hackberry lies south of Lake Charles and north of Cameron, where the hurricane made landfall just over an hour ago.

"It's not so bad at the moment. We're in the eye now. Right before we got into the eye, it was -- the highest gauge we got here was 137 miles per hour," he told CNN. "We had a couple of buildings around us come loose. A couple of antennae and satellites off of some boats."
There's not much rain at the moment, he said. The wind is at a low roar outside his cabin, and measuring about 30 to 40 miles per hour on his boat's wind gauge.

He added that it was fairly common for people in the area to stay, since many of them have boats. "Everybody knew what they were getting into before they got here," he said.

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