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.
(..) - For the road of the river. - Does the river dry off quickly after that certain point? - Sip. I arrived for a north connection of the river. I pushed my kayak for the whole desert. But after a storm my kayak was buried. (..)2007 Into the Wild