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.
(..) on the milky head of reverend Priam... ...seemed in the air to stick, so as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood and did nothing But as we often see before a storm a silence in the heavens... The clouds stand still, the bold winds speechless and the orb below as hush as death... (..)2015 Hamlet