 The storm tore out the oceanfront facade of the Henlopen Hotel, one of the finest establishments at Rehoboth. Rooms that had once provided an excellent view of the Atlantic were now part of the debris tossed about by the surf. On March 8, 1962, the Delaware Coast Press reported, the havoc was so great it belies the imagination. For Rehoboth, it was the worst storm in the town's long history.