Beware of strong winds!!!

Yesterday it was such a nice day that I decided to hang the laundry outside to dry. Nope, we don't have a dryer, so we hang all our clothes to dry. It's quite common not to have a dryer in Japan, and during the summer, you can see everyone hanging their laundry, futons, blankets, etc. over the balcony to air. Anyway, I had our laundry and a blanket out on the balcony to dry. We went out for only a short period of time (probably gone for about 40 minutes) and when we came back, I noticed that the futon was folded over, almost falling off the rail and a few shirts were missing from the laundry rack!!! Yikes what had happened while we were gone? We flew into action and grabbed the blanket and brought the laundry in. But what happened to my t-shirts? I looked over the balcony and noticed that they had fallen down to the balcony of the apartment on the first floor (we live on the top, 4th floor)!!! I'll have to go and retrieve them later on today. We were just thankful that it was our t-shirts and not underwear!!! I don't know if I'd want to retrieve those from the neighbour!!! *on another note, there was one incident where a pair of shorts from next door flew onto our balcony!*