Wireless carriers again brace for massive Northeast storm  As
carriers prepare for Nemo, they're offering up tips for
customers caught in the massive winter blizzard.  The Apple
Store on West 14th Street in Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy
hit.  (Credit: Marguerite Reardon/CNET)  Wireless carriers hope
they can weather Nemo better than Sandy.  With a massive
blizzard hitting the Northeast region just months after
superstorm Sandy devastated the area, the carriers are working
to avoid the same kind of mass outages that previously struck
their networks and left hundreds of thousands of people without
service.  AT&T said it has an "arsenal of disaster response
equipment and personnel on standby." The company has topped off
its fuel generators at various cell sites, installed and tested
high-capacity backup batteries, as well as "Quick Connect
Generator Plugs," and staged additional emergency response
equipment in various areas.  Verizon, meanwhile, has banks of
batteries that provide at least eight hours of backu