I once foolishly decided, at the peak of pollen load, to hit a pine tree with a pole... I was enveloped in the cloud. Not as intense as in the video, but enough to cause respiratory distress.
Surprisingly, that pollen doesn't bother me that much even when it coats everything in yellow. But the cedar pollen, which is more grey and finer and you don't really see, just incapacitates me.
