Afraid Of Hurricanes, Girl, 8, Heads To Ohio On Bicycle

[Nomad559]

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Headlines/frtHEAD04081707.htm

An 8-year-old child scared of hurricanes tried to go back to Ohio where she moved from -- on her bicycle -- DeLand police Deputy Chief Randel Henderson said Thursday.

"It is amusing but at the same time sad," Henderson said.

Heather Snoke was found at 7:46 p.m. by neighbors and a sheriff's helicopter, the report said.

The little girl stated to police "that she was headed back to Columbus Ohio, because she was afraid of hurricanes and that was her home," the report said.

Heather was riding her bicycle in front of her home at 621 Cypress Oak Circle near the Spring Garden Apartments late Wednesday afternoon, her mother Melissa Snoke, 37, told police. Twenty minutes later, at 6:30 p.m., the girl's father, John Snoke, 41, came home and noticed Heather was gone, a police report states.

[Tsiyu]

1. Poor baby

That just breaks my heart...

Sometimes kids are smarter than we are lol

and they don't even know it

Hope she can get some counseling and maybe her family can work out a 'hurricane plan' so she will have something to calm her fears.

Wonder what spooked her - news footage or mean kids scaring her to death?

It's nice to read a story about a community that finds a child alive and unharmed physically.

[cobalt1999]

2. sounds like she was just lonely.

based on the fact they had recently moved and "she hasn't made any friends yet". Poor thing.