If you have spring allergies, get ready for some nightmare fuel.

A viral video shows the moment workers chopped a limb from a river birch tree in Hixson, Tennessee, just north of Chattanooga, this week at the height of allergy season.

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In the slow-motion video shared by Timberline Outdoors LLC, the branch starts to fall, and a cloud of pollen shakes loose from the limb. When the limb finally crashes to the ground, another cloud of the dreaded yellow stuff rises nearly 10 feet in the air.

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"If you think your allergies are trying to kill you, you'd be right!" Timberline Outdoors captioned the video, which has been viewed more than 490,000 times since Thursday.

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– The Cox Media Group National Content Desk contributed to this report.

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