1 at midafternoon , not long after its eye came ashore at South Padre Island . Forecasters said its winds had decreased to about 95 mph . `` It 's probably not the best decision to ride it out , '' said Murphy , 41 , but he said he felt that he did n't have a lot of choice.iReport.com : Murphy 's Law striking Murphy 's Law ? Only one shipyard in the area can pull a boat such as his out of the water , he said , and there are more boats than there are spaces , `` so you pretty much have to man it . '' See the projected path of the storm '' The charter company is a family business , and Murphy has been working on boats since he was 9 . He said his brother was in a boat anchored next to Murphy 's Law . He was alone because his deckhands left . View photos from the storm zone '' Murphy was accompanied by his girlfriend , Lisa Graves , and the captain of the company 's third boat , which had been hauled out of the water . `` When
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND , Texas -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- As his fishing boat , Murphy 's Law , was tossed about Wednesday in the path of Hurricane Dolly , Steven Murphy hoped to dodge the adage his vessel is named for : `` If anything can go wrong , it will . '' Captain Murphy 's Fishing Charters boats sit moored Wednesday at South Padre Island , Texas . Murphy , owner of Captain Murphy 's Fishing Charters , was riding out the storm in the 65-foot double-decker boat tethered to a pier at South Padre Island , Texas , just north of Brownsville . `` I do n't know if you can hear that wind , but it 's really blowing . It 's like a tornado , '' he said . `` It 's starting to tear it up real good . '' Dolly strengthened into a Category 2 storm Wednesday with 100-mph winds as it lashed the south Texas-Mexico border , sending residents and military personnel scurrying for safety and forcing people on South Padre Island to hunker down to wait it out . Watch Dolly pound South Padre '' The hurricane was reclassified to a Category