KERRVILLE, Texas — People from all over the world flocked to Texas to see the eclipse on the path of totality.
The city of Kerrville has been gearing up for the eclipse, anticipating crowds and a rush from people visiting to see the total solar eclipse.
At The Fairy Moon Emporium in downtown Kerrville, eclipse-themed magnets, crystals, and patches still decorated the front on Tuesday.
"We had people from Germany, Japan, and just all over the world and so we got to meet a lot of interesting people," said Pamela Palmera, the co-owner of the Fairy Moon Emporium. "We did a full months worth of business in three days. Yeah, it was crazy."
Julie Davis is the President and CEO of the Kerrville Convention and Visitors Bureau. She anticipated an influx of people coming to the city for the eclipse.
"A lot of the meetings that I was attending a few years ago with Hill Country Alliance, they were saying numbers for the entire Hill Country," Davis said. "When you look at that spread across the entire Hill Country, we had what I anticipated."
Davis however, explained she had kept her expectations realistic despite the predicted numbers.
"When I would see the news articles that were 500 thousand or something [people coming], I would be like I don’t know how that’s possible," she said. "That path of totality is so wide through Texas, there were just so many miles of Texas you could see this."
In the coming months, Davis expects sales tax numbers, hotel occupancy tax numbers, and data of cell phone usage to concretely show how much of an impact the solar eclipse had on the economy.