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.
(..) I find it difficult to argue with a drunk. But it's true, I did not win the race... We swam for five days, neck and neck. I was conserving my strength, for the final stretch. When this storm blew up, and with it came sea monsters. Again and again the monsters attacked, dark things (..)2007 Beowulf
(..) My mother was a fishwife in Uppland. I was rather hoping to die in battle, as a warrior should. The men are worried. The storm has no end, Beowulf... It's no earthly storm! That much is for sure. But this demon's tempest won't hold us out. if we really want IN! Who wants to live!? (..)2007 Beowulf