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Graceland, home of Elvis Presley and one of the city's most famous, is about 20 minutes drive from the river and not in danger of flooding, a spokesman Kevin Kern said. "We're in the hills, high and dry and open for business, and will remain open," said Kern.
Stagnant water at the lowest end of Beale Street, the road identical to the Mississippi blues, but that's about half a mile from where nightlife is world famous street.
The main airport is not threatened Memphis, nor FedEx, which has a sorting hub at the airport that handles up to 2 million packets per day.
Bea, a civil engineer, said he was concerned that some levees in the United States has been built with inferior dirt, or even sand, and has been designed with the bad.
"The standard we use to build these things on the side of a low terrible if you judge them by criteria and conditions of the world," he said. "The offense, as we learned in New Orleans, was the killer."
How long is the high water to stay alive, and how much damage it does on the soil of the levee wall as it goes down, is an important factor.
"Summer as a whole must be supervised," said David J. Rogers, a civil engineer at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
In Tennessee, local officials uncertain whether they have the legal authority for the evacuation orders, and expect handouts will persuade people to leave. Bob Nations, emergency management director for Shelby County, which includes Memphis, says there is still time to get out. The river is not expected to peak until Wednesday.
