Suburban Chicago family devastated after woman goes missing in Nepal amid flash floods

A suburban family is clinging to hope as they search for their loved one who went missing in the catastrophic flash floods in Nepal on Wednesday. Poonam Dilipkumar Thakkar, 42, left her home in Bartlett for Nepal last Thursday for a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to visit Mount Kailash. She traveled to the region as part of a religious pilgrimage to Mount Kailash, which Hindus believe is the home of the god Shiva. Thakkar checked in with her family from Hotel Kailash in Timure where she was…