Welcome to the online version of “What’s up with that?” This is a weekly feature that runs in the North Raleigh News section of the News & Observer.
In this feature, we answer readers’ questions: Curious about something you’ve seen as you drove around town? Here’s the place to ask questions -- and to provide answers. If you have a question, post it here. And if you can help answer a question, post that, too. Each Friday, we’ll choose a question to run in the News & Observer.
We’ll start things going with a question from Margie McKelvy:
“I've been driving from Raleigh to work in Durham for 12 years on U.S. 70 and I'm wondering what those giant sewer pipe-looking things are right at the Wake/Durham county border. They've been there as long as I can remember and no one seems to be doing any construction there.”
Anyone out there know anything about these pipes? Here’s a photo:
Here are a couple more questions we're working on. If anyone can help answer these, please post your information:
“We’ve lived in Philadelphia, Seattle and Miami and this is the first place we've noticed this -- nobody parks in driveways. They all park on the street...It baffles me. I don’t think it’s etiquette. It must be something else.”
-- Louis Guillama, northern Wake
Could you look into the history of the old stone fireplace located in the Durant Nature Park? I pass it when I am taking the walk around the perimeter of the Durant Park.
-- Deborah Brogden
PIPES
The state probably forgot about them, or, they are supposed to be underground somwhere. You ever purchase something you had to assemble and when you were done you had a bunch of left over parts.. OOPPSS!!! That's probably the case here!!!!