In Japan many years ago and old farmer was tending the wheet
fields on the steep hillside above a small fishing settlement.
As he stood up to rest his back, he gazed out to sea. To his
horror saw a tsunami approaching; the people in the villiage
were, of course, unaware of the impending distruction and
death. The villiage was too far away for waving or hollering to
provide an effective alert. How was he to save the people? He
set fire to the villiage's wheet fields. The people down below
saw the flames and most rushed up to the high ground to
prevent the destruction of their crop and, thus avoided the tidal
wave that crushed the villiage.