WATCH: This video proves that pollen is, in fact, trying to kill us

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Think pollen is trying to kill you? This video may just prove you right.

This is what happened when tree trimmers in Tennessee cut down a portion of a tree this week at the height of allergy season.

Shot by Timberline Outdoors LLC, the video shows the terrifying moment tree trimmers chopped a limb from a river birch tree in Hixon, just north of Chattanooga.

In slow motion, the branch starts to fall, and a cloud of the dreaded yellow stuff shakes loose from the limb. In what looks like a minor natural apocalypse when the limb finally crashes to the ground, another cloud of pollen rises nearly 10 feet in the air.

The video makes us sneeze just looking at it. And it's no wonder so many of us are already cursing spring in the south.

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If you've got watering eyes and are sneezing non-stop, you aren't alone.

Friday marked the fifth highest pollen count (6262) in Georgia since record-keeping began in 1991. It was the highest pollen count in six years, according to Severe Weather Team 2 Meteorologist Katie Walls.

"The 'high' range (when it comes to pollen counts) begins at 90 and we're 69 times higher than that," Walls said Friday.

There may be some relief in sight, though: Walls said soaking rain moving in early next week could potentially finally put a damper on our pollen woes. Of course, Walls said the relief will only be temporary because it won't eliminate the pollen entirely.

Let's just try to hold on until summer, Georgia.

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