But the strongmen and sword swallowers who perform at the Coney Island Circus Sideshow will be out of work until May 24, when owner Dick Zigun is able to open the first floor of the landmark building that houses it as well as a bar, giftshop and dressing room destroyed by Sandy.
The beaches of north Cornwall were still open and the only signs of a shark around the north Cornwall seaside town were the blow-up kind in giftshop windows.