A crawling Hurricane Sally is set to pound parts of the US Gulf Coast with rain for another day Tuesday before it makes landfall, raising fears that significant flooding is in store for coastal Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.

“We’re talking about (potentially) a historic rainfall event” Tuesday through at least Wednesday, National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham told CNN Tuesday morning.

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