After being buffeted by the wind, Piglet develops a fear of it. He even refuses to go outside. The friends must lift it, and get Piglet outside again.
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The very strong wind has a tendency to blow about very small animals. Piglet gets blown all around the Hundred Acre Wood while he is holding an umbrella. When he flies by his house, Piglet attempts to avoid being blown away by grabbing the handle on his door, which promptly breaks off the door. Piglet goes flying one way before being catapults by a bird's nest in a tree.
He then blows through Pooh's house as Pooh is trying to shut an open window on his house, while claiming it's "Wind's Day" again, just as Piglet goes flying through the window and into the stove, as Pooh claims the wind sounds a lot like Piglet just as Piglet is blown out of Pooh's house through the chimney pipe.
Piglet is then sent flying towards Rabbit’s house where Rabbit is relaxing in his chair while sipping tea. When he gets a knock at the door, upon answering, Piglet is blown all through the house, creating a terrible ruckus, and not to mention mess. While catching random falling objects, Rabbit orders Piglet to get down on the ground, but poor Piglet is unable to due to the wind blowing him around, as he shoots past Rabbit and out the door. As Rabbit, underneath a pile of his items asks himself: "Why does this always happen to me?"
Tigger then goes to Kanga and Roo’s house, and invites himself inside, just as Kanga is serving breakfast, as the wind ends up causing their flapjacks to fly, as Kanga tells Roo to not "let his breakfast play with you", just as Tigger catches one in mid air in his mouth. Saying they taste better when they're moving. Piglet then slams into one of the windows as Roo points out to him, but just as Tigger goes to look, Piglet is already blown off the window. Claiming it was probably "one of them unidentified flying omelets".
Soon enough the wind calms down enough to blow Piglet back to his house, where Piglet is squeezed through the hole in his door from where the doorknob broke off. Which causes a mess of his furniture, after which Piglet decides the safest place is under his chair, and he hides there like last time. Claiming he is never going out into the wind again.
Later, Piglet is visited by Pooh, Rabbit, and Tigger who try to convince him there's nothing to fear, but Piglet is too afraid to leave. Pooh then tries to calm Piglet down by claiming the wind sounds better this time as he looks outside where 2 crows are blown about the wind. In an attempt to further console Piglet, Pooh decides to open the window. Where Rabbit and Tigger try to stop him, but are too late to do so as Pooh has already opened the window, in which the wind picks up Piglet and sends him flying around the house, now making him even more afraid of the wind than before. Pooh then decides they need to think of a plan to get Piglet out.
For the first attempt Pooh decides to give Piglet a telegram. Which Piglet goes to answer, and has tied bricks to his feet and a rope to his waist to hold him down, but he still gets blown about by the wind. For their second plan, they enlist the help of Gopher, where they go to dig a tunnel to Piglet's house. But it doesn't go as well as they hoped, as they first make a wrong turn and slam into a huge rock then when trying again, they do make it to Piglet’s house, but unfortunately end up passing underneath the floorboards as Piglet watches from underneath his chair, by the time they stop digging they end up directly under a lake. Which Gopher opens up from the bottom sending all the water inside draining into their tunnel and washing away all four of them.
While at Pooh's house, drying off from the water, Pooh decides the only option they have left is to give Piglet a "staying inside" party. They all then attend the party along with Gopher, Kanga, Roo, Eeyore, and Owl, who recalls a time where his Great Uncle Waldo once mistook a closet for the front door and stayed stuck inside for three years straight. Tigger then asks Piglet to come out from underneath his chair and join the fun, but Piglet doesn’t feel like coming out. Which Gopher proclaims it's silly for someone to miss their own party. Pooh then explains Piglet's just being afraid because of the wind. Before he brings a slice of cake to Piglet with a lit candle on it, asking him to make a wish on it. Piglet’s wish is that he never has to come out of his chair again, as he blows out the candle and then takes the slice under the chair to eat. Roo asks if he hides under a chair, can he eat cake all the time. Kanga replies no, saying he’ll have to have ice cream too! While everyone else is having a slice of cake of their own, Eeyore is missing Piglet too, as are the others. Pooh gives Piglet a pinwheel as a gift, as the others leave. Later, everyone else is having a picnic on the hill as Rabbit and Tigger are swinging from the swing on a nearby tree. With them recalling how Piglet enjoyed swinging on the swing, wondering if he misses it. Piglet watching them from his window, says he does, wishing he could join them. Then later that same day, Pooh, Tigger, and Rabbit are watching the colorous sunset, still missing Piglet, before they leave for the evening.
Later that night, the wind is blowing more fiercely than before, as Piglet is watching it from his window, when he suddenly sees Pooh out in the wind. Things start to take a turn for the worse as the wind tears a tree right out the ground, sending it flying towards Pooh, which catches him by the shirt. While Piglet watches in horror. The tree then stops flying about as it gets stuck between some rocks, but this leaves Pooh hanging from it over a huge cliff. With a very deep drop below. Pooh's shirt then tears, as Pooh goes falling when his scarf unravels from his neck and then the wind causes it to tye itself on the tree. Making Piglet even more worried for Pooh. Pooh then tries to climb up his scarf, unfortunately, it starts to rip too. Piglet then overcomes his fear of the wind and rushes outside to the rescue. Using his pinwheel to fly with the ferocious wind. Just in the nick of time as Pooh's scarf rips completely and Pooh goes plummeting down, but Piglet manages to catch up to him and they grab the other's hands, as Piglet's pinwheel brings both of them down slowly. But then the pinwheel breaks apart sending them both falling. But they both land safely on the ground as it was a very short fall. Pooh then explains he was coming to save Piglet from the wind but instead, Piglet used the wind to save him instead. Before pointing out that the wind is no longer telling him he's scared. But sadly proclaims his going away present is ruined upon seeing the destroyed pinwheel. But Piglet states he doesn't need it anymore as he's back again. Which Pooh states he's glad as they both share a hug before walking off in the night as the wind continues to blow very calmly.
This shares the same title as the ever-popular 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, which was later adapted into a film of the same name in 1939. Although unrelated, the famous silhouette scene from David O. Selznick’s Gone with the Wind appears to be the inspiration for Pooh, Tigger and Rabbit watching the sunset as illustrated in the title card.
