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.
(..) Access granted. May I have your attention please. At , telemetry detected an anomaly in the neutral zone. What appeared to be a lightning storm in space. Soon after, Starfleet received a distress signal from the Vulcan high command that their planet was experiencing seismic activity. (..)2009 Star Trek
(..) Did you receive it? Kelvin, can you double-check those readings? Our gravitational sensors are going crazy here. You should see this. It looks like a lightning storm. What you've sent us doesn't seem possible. Yes mam, I understand. That's why we sent it. - Report. (..)2009 Star Trek