
Surf Avenue in Rehoboth Beach ran all the way along the beachfront many decades ago. Storms eventually took it out. This is where Surf now turns inland just north of the Henlopen Hotel - a place always vulnerable to high seas.

Even after Sandy there's plenty of beach left in Rehoboth. This photograph looks north from Prospect Street at the south end of the Boardwalk - usually the widest section of Rehoboth's beach.

One of the roughest looking buildings in Rehoboth after Sandy is this house on First Street in the north end of town. Fortunately it's meant to look like this - in the earliest stages of restoration.
Hurricane Sandy's flood waters brought plenty of damage to Delaware's coast but nothing like would have been the case had the much higher winds materialized. We're just lucky the storm took the path it did, unlike our millions of friends to the north. Here are a few more photographs from the Lewes and Rehoboth area on the day after.
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Dennis Forney has been a journalist on the Delmarva Peninsula since 1972 and has been writing his Barefootin’ column for The Whale and then the Cape Gazette for more than 30 years. Like his Barefootin' Facebook page to get notified of blog updates.
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