I'm in Rochester 50 east of Buffalo, actually they get the press about snow but we get as much and sometimes more. We also have 725,000 in our county. That means in the last 5 years there may of been a couple of times that you are not on dry pavement every where except perhaps your street. The main drags are plowed and salted. I have seen years when we are shut down due to snow but that's once every 10 years. Remember we know how to handle show. Virginia or Texas is shut down more due to snow then we are. They can't handle it. Our town of 95,000 has 30 - 40 plows. Having said that a lite dusting of snow at rush hour and you can go slip sliding away. I drive 500 miles per week on the Thruway from Rochester to Albany from Jan - June and in the last 4 years there have been a dozen bad storms in that stretch. I don't drive the Crossfire in the snow but drive a rear wheel drive 300C. If it gets really bad I'll use my chief of staffs FWD Ford.