After a full week of sunshine and little additional rainfall across much of the county, things are starting to dry out from the soaking that began with the June 26 storm here. U.S. Highway 180 about 10 miles east of Lamesa reopened to traffic on Friday after being closed since June 26 due to flooding. The road had been under water just east of the intersection of Highway 180 and FM 178 at the Key community. Highway 180 remained closed Friday at the western edge of Lamesa, however. The Texas Department of Transportation was showing on its website Friday that the highway at ...