will worsen inflation.

Tourism rebounded with 4.7 million visitors last year, Yellowstone’s second-busiest on record.Winding roads and natural distractions help fuel numerous accidents in and around the park.

The first death involving a passenger vehicle in Yellowstone came just a few years after the park was completely motorized and a fleet of buses replaced the stage coaches and horses used for transport in the park’s early years.In 1921, a 10-passenger bus went off the road in the Fishing Bridge area of the park and down an embankment, killing a 38-year-old Texas woman when her neck was broken, according to park historian Lee Whittlesey.Whittlesey in his book “Deaths in Yellowstone.” chronicles deaths by all means –- from drownings in hot springs, to bear maulings, airplane crashes and murders. Auto deaths, Whittlesey wrote, are “legion” in the park, to the point that he felt them too ordinary to include in his tally of fatalities.

Another accounting ofsays at least 17 people died inside the park in motor vehicle crashes since 2007, ranking it the second most common cause of deaths behind medical issues.

Whittlesey presaged the chapter of his book covering road deaths with a quote attributed to the 15th century soothsayer Mother Shipton: “Carriages without horses shall go, And Accidents fill the world with woe.”

Brown reported from Billings, Montana.The storm hit Boston with heavy rains and stiff wind starting Thursday morning. Southern Massachusetts was also dealing with heavy rains that made for messy morning and evening commutes.

The heaviest rain was expected to fall in Rhode Island and southern and eastern Massachusetts, Pederson said. Localized nuisance flooding and difficult driving conditions were possible Thursday, but catastrophic flooding was not expected.Providence was hit with wind and steady rains by midafternoon. Further north, in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, lobster boats shook on the water as high winds brought choppy seas.

More than 60 flights were canceled Thursday at Boston Logan International Airport, where there were also more than 300 delayed flights. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority shut down three commuter ferries because of rough seas.There were other cancellations and service disruptions in some coastal areas, including a shutdown of the Block Island Ferry because of adverse sea conditions.