How do you know no 'witchcraft', 'demonism', or other 'spiritual' issues aren't at work when a community reportedly displaces itself more than a day before the event? I don't and I have studied similar issues a fair amount.
I have not lectured to this topic, but have posed the situation so that those who have studied the issue might understand it in a consistant language as previously touched upon by others in those fields.
There do exist phenomena outside the physical and conscience realm which touches upon our thinking processes. Those studies within Christianity touch upon the study of the spirit. Nothing insulting in that issue,..it's only been around for about 5600 years.
It's animal instinct,is all.We've all grown away from such abilities,by living "modern" lives! Even American/Western farmers and fishermen use sophisticated machinery and aren't as attuned to nature as are more primitive societies.
You're position is akin to those who claim that natural disasters and even diseases are a curse from GOD.I don't believe that they are. The Bubonic Plague,once thought of as GOD's punishment,wasn't.