Brisbane news live: Schools across Brisbane remain shut; Crews continue storm clean-up, thousands still without power

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Several schools across Brisbane remain shut

By Felicity Caldwell

Some schools remain closed on Tuesday as the clean-up from Sunday night’s severe storm continues, while thousands are still without power.

Brookfield State School and Upper Brookfield State School will be closed, while Centenary State High School will reopen today.

St Peters Lutheran College in Indooroopilly advised families that power had not been restored, so the school would be closed for Prep to Year 11 with supervision provided for those who could not make other arrangements, while Year 12 QCAA and IB exams would continue.

Water was shut down at Boondall State School yesterday, due to a burst water pipe. With no drinking water supply at school, children were asked to bring bottled water – refills available in classrooms and the hall toilets operating.

The leak has been located and the plumber was trying to fix the problem before school started on Tuesday.

Thousands of properties are still without power on Tuesday morning, including in Brookfield, Pullenvale, Kenmore, Fig Tree Pocket, Indooroopilly, Bardon, Toowong, Paddington, Aspley, Mt Gravatt and Inala.

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‘Projectiles’ shot into Gold Coast home

By Dominique Tassell

Two men wearing all-black have fired shots into a home on the Gold Coast.

The men arrived at the home on Gideon Gardens in Pimpama about 4.30am on Tuesday.

“Two projectiles were discharged into the front door,” Queensland police said.

A resident inside the home was not hurt.

Police are investigating the incident and ask anyone with information or footage from the area to come forward.

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Several schools across Brisbane remain shut

By Felicity Caldwell

Some schools remain closed on Tuesday as the clean-up from Sunday night’s severe storm continues, while thousands are still without power.

Brookfield State School and Upper Brookfield State School will be closed, while Centenary State High School will reopen today.

The leak has been located and the plumber was trying to fix the problem before school started on Tuesday.

8.47am

Extensive damage from Sunday storm

By Brittney Deguara

Good morning, my name is Brittney Deguara, and I’ll be running today’s live blog.

Below is an update from Energex on the power outages and clean-up job. Here’s another photo of the damage Sunday’s storm caused.

Thousands of homes across the Brisbane region are still without power.

8.32am

The mammoth task of clearing fallen trees and restoring power

By William Davis

More houses in Greater Brisbane lost power last night amid high winds, with Energex saying it had 216 workers on the ground by the evening.

Crews attended to fallen branches across Brisbane, many in the western suburbs of Toowong, Sherwood and Fig Tree Pocket.

“There have been more than 120,000 customers impacted by the storms and there are still about 5500 customers out,” Energex said, via Facebook.

“Crews are coming in from everywhere to work though the worst of the damage around Indooroopilly, Kenmore and Fig Tree Pocket.

“There’s still more than 40 wires down, broken poles to replace and lots of vegetation, so please be extremely careful if you’re cleaning up today.”

Read our full story about Brisbane being a city of extremes in the past two days.

8.16am

Cool, cloudy and wet after Monday’s meltdown

The city has woken to rain and 20-degree temperatures after 48 hours of wild weather.

The bureau has forecast a maximum of 22 degrees today – after yesterday’s near-40 scorcher – and a wet day. Humidity is expected to remain high.

But the cool relief will linger only a few days. From Friday, the top temperatures are likely to creep back closer to the 30-degree mark.

Here’s the seven-day outlook:

8.10am

While you were sleeping

Here’s what’s making news further afield:

The Albanese government will force telcos including Optus and Telstra to keep a real-time public register of network outages. It follows the September Optus outage, linked to three deaths, where at least 600 Triple Zero calls failed.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s decision to cut opposition staff and attempt to tighten freedom of information laws has earned his government a failing grade on transparency and spurred teal MPs to claim it is worse than the Morrison government on promoting integrity, a report from the independent Centre for Public Integrity found.

US President Donald Trump has not ruled out seeking a third term in the White House, he told reporters in Asia, saying he “would love to do it”. It is not clear what method the US leader would use to run again.

King Charles has been heckled about Prince Andrew during a public appearance in England, in a dramatic display of the risks to the monarchy from the scandal over convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

And Hurricane Melissa has intensified into a Category 5 storm as it draws closer to Jamaica, where forecasters expected it to unleash catastrophic flooding, landslides and widespread damage. At that strength, it would be the strongest hurricane to hit the island since record-keeping began in 1851.

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