No offense, but your brother is on crack.  I'm in Ithaca right now looking at a beautiful blue sky and cars are driving safely on non-iced over roads.  CNY is getting some snow tonight and tomorrow, but I don't think it will be enough to cause any significant trouble.  

http://www.news10now.com/content/weather/

The lake snow they mention is most likely going to be north of Syracuse, and Cuse itself is going to get about 2-4 inches tomorrow which is nothing.