The EID is not a municipal power company, but a private initiative under a public rubric that allows private property owners to provide electric and thermal energy for one or more buildings.
Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson said in a briefing with reporters Saturday that Dykes has told them he has blankets and an electric heater in the bunker, which is located on his rural property.
The disaster caused billions of dollars worth of damage to residential and commercial property and also damaged a nuclear reactor that was operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), sending dangerous levels of radiation out into the atmosphere.