Kevin Wilk’s daughter was on an airplane to Los Angeles just after Thanksgiving when the pilot told passengers they’d reached 10,000 feet. She looked out the window at how far down the ground was. Then a realization hit her.
“She looked out the window and said ‘My dad was still 7,000 feet higher,’” the Walnut Creek city councilmember said over coffee at Walnut Creek’s Buttercup diner. “That’s when it really hit her, how high it was. It just put it in perspective.”
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