Even the squirrels are starving

GDP2 started on Wall Street, kicked Detroit while it was down, and is in the process of tanking the whole economy.  But no economists could have predicted that the next victims of the economic downturn would be our friends the squirrels.  

Apparently the oak trees--red, white, and black alike--in the Mid-Atlantic region have just up and decided to stop making acorns, leaving behind a wake of crazed, starving squirrels:

Then calls started coming in about crazy squirrels. Starving, skinny squirrels eating garbage, inhaling bird feed, greedily demolishing pumpkins. Squirrels boldly scampering into the road. And a lot more calls about squirrel roadkill.  

It seems that nobody can figure out exactly what the problem is, but one naturalist hopes that "it's not something ghastly going on with the natural world."  Well, whatever is going on with the trees, let's hope that it doesn't end like that terrible M. Night Shyamalan movie.