Drying out

Have you noticed the vast quantities of clothes/mattresses and so on laid out or hung out to dry along our railway tracks? This is in addition to the possibly vaster quantities of clothes/mattresses/household goods simply thrown away -- there are piles of the stuff dotting the city in addition to the more usual garbage.

But I was intrigued by those clothes along the tracks. Didn't strike me until I saw them that drying stuff would be a major headache after the downpour. Especially when the rain starts up again.