New Orleans (CNN) -- Residents in Memphis, Tennessee, are bracing for potentially historic floods Tuesday when the Mississippi River is expected to crest at a near-record level and Louisiana appears to be next in the path of the bloated river.
One of the Memphis residents in peril was Latisha Bowles. Her neighborhood had been swallowed by flood waters but so far but her home was the last one at the waters' edge.
"It wants to come up here, but I've been praying every day it don't," Bowles told CNN affiliate WMC Monday. "I got three kids and I'm not ready to move out of my house over this."
Memphis is one of the many cities now menaced by the Mississippi River. The river level stood at 47.8 feet Monday evening and is expected to crest at 48 feet, forecasters said.
President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration for the state of Tennessee on Monday, which will help direct federal aid toward recovery efforts in areas hit by severe storms, flooding and tornadoes since early April.
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