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.
(..) thing on the thing. And I know it's going to be really hard, but... Wiping ye burn with a hook for a hand is really hard. The last time we tried to storm Lord Business' office... ...we used every plan we could conceive. The result was a massacre too terrible to speak of. (..)2014 The Lego Movie