Well, if it's going to end up like Nazi Germany, the part that fixed there inflation was to start a war. War is good for the economy, so if your hungry and in need of food, join the army.
There is also a theory that we could see massive earth quakes on an extreme level, I'm talking about levelling the mountains on the Rockies event. If you think about it, that may actually be possible, cause there are fault lines on cost mostly on west but there maybe cases on the east that events like this can happen as well. This is of coarse apart of the rapture theory.
Also with Yellowstone national park, if that volcano goes off, you will see a horrific event that could kill all of us.
http://www.earthmountainview.com/yellowstone/yellowstone.htm. There is a theory this could go off in 2012 or later which can trigger theories of doom
If I were all of you, travel to the north or south pole, it might be cold enough to make most of the sulphur dioxide gas discharged from the volcano settle to the earth because of the temperatures. I say this because SO2 gas is heavier then air and it might settle to the earth before it reaches the polar regions. I have a theory, going by all the nerve gas training in the army, most of those gases are not very effective in a really a cold environment which brings the gases to the ground, so it might be possible to escape the SO2 gas in the same manner. Also by travelling north, you will escape the seismic events that take place from the volcano