His racial comments 'kicked/whipped/stirred up a storm' in the newspapers. [=newspapers criticized his racial comments very strongly]
The college was quiet that morning, but it was 'the calm before the storm'. Thousands of students would arrive later.
Newspapers have 'weathered the storm' of online information by providing news online themselves.
(..) Come on! Right. Let's go. Get it. Holy shit! It's a time storm. Time is broken here. We must find the Eye! All of you! Hurry! We are running out of time! Hurry! Hurry! (..)2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider