Heavy rain, pound­ing surf and flash floods hit parts of the Flori­da Pan­han­dle and the Alaba­ma coast on Tues­day as Hur­ri­cane Sal­ly lum­bered toward land at a painful­ly slow pace, threat­en­ing as much as 30 inch­es (76 cen­time­ters) of rain and dan­ger­ous, his­toric flood­ing. The storm’s cen­ter churned off­shore 65 miles (105 kilo­me­ters) south-south­east of Mobile, Alaba­ma, as Sal­ly crept north-north­east toward an expect­ed Wednes­day land­fall at 2 mph (3 kph), accord­ing to the Nation­al Hur­ri­cane Center.