Listen to Hurricane Laura’s haunting winds as storm makes landfall along Louisiana

The sounds of Hurricane Laura’s extreme winds were compared to a horror movie as it reached Louisiana early Thursday morning.

Laura brought maximum sustained winds of up to 150 MPH to the Gulf Coast, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The whistling sounds of the wind were heard in numerous videos, including one by The Storm Warning — a group of extreme weather chasers.

An ABC 13 reporter indoors in Lake Charles, Louisiana, had to yell because the wind was howling so loudly. A commenter said, “Sounds like horror movies when something bad ‘bout to happen. Run!”

Inside the same Lake Charles building, another video toured the facility while the sound of winds carried a creepy tone.

“I’ve lived through a few hurricanes here in FL, thanks to be God, but the sound of the wind in this clip stands the hair up on the back of my neck,” one commenter said. “That is very frightening indeed.”

Laura, later weakened to a Category 2 hurricane as it moved inland through Louisiana and Texas, was tied for highest recorded landfall wind of any Louisiana hurricane in more than 150 years, a meteorologist said.

Despite the storm being downgraded, the hurricane center said in a 9 a.m. update it was still causing a “life-threatening storm surge” with maximum winds of 100 MPH.

This story was originally published August 27, 2020 at 10:04 AM with the headline "Listen to Hurricane Laura’s haunting winds as storm makes landfall along Louisiana."