By Shari Hams and Molly Slattery, ABC
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About 90,000 households remain without power, 11 state schools are closed and an insurance "catastrophe" has been declared after giant hailstones, destructive winds and intense lightning lashed south-east Queensland.
Intense storm cells swept through the region on Monday afternoon, bringing heavy rain, strong winds and giant hail up to 14 centimetres in size.
Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek said the schools had been closed due to storm damage, including several at Bribie Island.
"This damage is similar to the types of things that we know happens in these storm events, just as we had with ex-tropical cyclone Alfred," he said.
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