Yup, if you get a bright day or a warm day with a slight drizzle, you can get treacherous conditions come late afternoon/evening. Especially slightly snow covered drive ways or roads... but for the most part roads are fine. Even back roads. Some folks swear by front wheel drive foreign jobs commuting back and forth to Syracuse. I settle with a 4*4 and sometimes the tires aren't so good. You should be fine bud

Well thank you all for your responses sounds like I will not follow through with the knee jerk reaction.  Instead I will just go get my tire tread depth measured and then just take my time.  Now if the forecast starts to look ominous perhaps I will follow through with the purchase but for the time being I can save that money for xmas, etc...
 
Thanks for the input, sounds like this could be quite the experience.