Tsunami: What has to happen will happen

I got this appaling news from one of my friends. This is one of the example which makes me feel that what has to happen will happen for it is not in our hands to control what is going to happen.
Below are exceprt from Columbo Times...

On 26th Dec '04 early morning several hrs before the catastrophy happened,
Honolulu Tsunami Monitoring center have been trying to call our
Meteorological Dept. monitoring center in Palekelle and Colombo but
failed. They also got in touch with presidents' office however it was
informed that she's out of the island on a private vacation.

Finally they called Prime minister's secretariat, but Prime minister was
out on his morning walk. Thinking at least it's best to keep him vigilant
on this, the Honolulu officials left the message with the person who
picked up the phone to inform Prime minister that there's a Tsunami coming
from Indonesia.

On prime minister's return, the operator told prime minister about the
call, said T. Sunami from Indonesia is arriving in 2 hrs. Prime minister
promptly took action to send a delegation to Katunayake Airport with name
boards ' Welcome Mr. T. Sunami - Indonesia..