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.
(..) We must save him. Ready. And heave! Please, I need your help! Come on! Any port in a storm. Cotton's right. We've got the Pearl. What about Jack? Are you gonna leave him? Jack owes us a ship. (..)2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
(..) we learned we needed his blood to lift the curse. That's what you call ironic. Bring him. I don't care for the situation. Any attempt to storm the caves could turn to an ambush. Not if you're the one doing the ambushing. I convince Barbossa to send his men out with their little boats. (..)2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl