If you've got a lot of canned food and bottled water, and aren't within striking distance of the conservative estimates of storm surge, staying is fine.

I'm guessing, though, that the kind of person who goes to a bar in Galveston during a hurricane is not the kind of person bright enough to follow those rules (having already violated them on grounds of storm surge).

Sabine Pass is, fortunately, very small.  And, fortunately, there simply isn't that much between Galveston and Port Arthur.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.