After driving down a dark and desolate Chimes Street once every few hours checking for signs of electricity, Clarke Cadzow, owner of Highland Coffees, was relieved when he pulled up to glimmering lights and the steady hum of air conditioning Tuesday afternoon.The Northgate area was without power for about a week following Hurricane Gustav. Cadzow, along with other business owners and managers in the area, suffered from product loss and damage because of the storm.”I’m surprised it’s taken this long to get power back,” Cadzow said. The Northgate area usually regains power quickly after bad storms, he said.Highland Coffees opened Wednesday morning after a long week without power that resulted in the loss of about $10,000 in milk, pastries and coffee. Cadzow said he expects insurance to cover part of the cost. On Aug. 31, the day before Gustav hit, Cadzow gathered the shop’s patio furniture into a safe place and put sand bags in front of the doors.”Baton Rouge is not New Orleans in terms of how bad a storm can be, but because this one was coming straight toward us, I took it very seriously,” Cadzow said.Once power returned Tuesday, Cadzow and his employees frantically placed orders with vendors, cleaned the shop and began roasting coffee beans.Cadzow said the shop had about half its normal supply of pastries, coffee and milk on Wednesday. But that did not stop a large crowd of students from filling nearly every seat in the shop that afternoon.The Chimes, reopening today, also suffered a large amount of product loss and damage.Doug Felton, general manager of The Chimes, said the restaurant lost about $30,000 worth of food and some beer during the week. The roof of The Varsity Theatre’s back office was blown off during the storm as well. Felton said the office will most likely have to be fully rebuilt.With almost no products in the restaurant, The Chimes’ employees were busy placing orders Tuesday night. Michelle Krantz, floor manager, said insurance is expected to cover their large loss.Storyville, a custom T-shirt and locally designed apparel store, had two trees fall in its front lawn. Co-owners Elizabeth and Rebekah Harvey live in apartments above the store and witnessed Gustav’s powerful gusts of wind.”Luckily, [the trees fell] towards the street,” Elizabeth Harvey said. Their father and other family members helped clear the fallen trees from their lot and rebuild a destroyed patio. Storyville reopened Monday, using a generator to power fans and computers.  Although Storyville did not have any product loss because of the storm, the store suffered from lack of income because of the movement of Aug. 30’s football game against Appalachian State to 10 a.m. and the postponement of last Saturday’s game against Troy to Nov. 15.”Football season is huge for us,” Elizabeth Harvey said. The Nov. 15 game, at first scheduled as a bye week, was the original date of Storyville’s annual fashion show. They have since moved the event to March 21.Jared Loftus, owner of Tiger District, said his LSU apparel store also suffered from loss of income because of the bizarre start to the Tigers’ football season.”Our business is seasonal,” Loftus said. “We are able to stay open because of football season. When you take out a week of that, it’s pretty serious.”Loftus said Tiger District, which reopened Wednesday, does more business on the eight LSU home gamedays than all three months of summer combined.Reginelli’s Pizzeria, which opened only about a year ago and reopened Wednesday, lost about $5,000 to $6,000. Bruce Erhardt, co-owner of Reginelli’s, said the restaurant’s entire food inventory was compromised. “I’m disappointed the power didn’t come on quicker,” Erhardt said. “It just seems like more attention was paid to New Orleans than here.”The 10 p.m. curfew in effect in East Baton Rouge Parish over the past week ended 6 a.m. today. Krantz said The Chimes plans to return to its regular hours of 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Highland Coffees, Tiger District, Reginelli’s and Storyville all plan to return to normal business hours once the curfew ends.—-Contact Kyle Bove at [email protected]