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Things are just about back to normal in Tallahassee following Hurricane Hermine, but as Matt Galka tells us, some small business owners say the storm took some money out of their pocket.

Joe’s Bike Shop is back open, but not before Hurricane Hermine changed some of the business hours.

“We didn’t have power until yesterday, it finally got turned back on. We were outta here for 6 days,” said owner Joe Mezzina.

But even though he was kept out of work, Mezzina kept his sense of humor.

“Yea we lost millions of dollars….and we don’t know if we’ll ever get back on our feet again,” he laughed.

The state activated a small business loan assistance program to help some companies in the meantime.

While the Governor was out all week helping with storm damage – his criticism of the response to the storm centered around getting people back to work.

“People not having a job for six days, if you think about the typical American, typical Floridian, they don’t have a lot of money in the bank,” said Gov. Rick Scott (R-Florida).

The Department of Economic Opportunity added Hurricane Hermine to a business damage assessment survey they’re running on the department’s website. The other two damage options – the Zika virus and algae blooms.