Brisbane hail storm: Car dealers on their own GoPro footage of the recent Brisbane storm in Yeronga. Courtesy: Vimeo/Jared Bazley THE Queensland government has ruled out helping car dealerships that are facing closure after Thursday's savage hailstorm. Insurance claims for home and contents and motor vehicles damage have exceeded $145 million as of Saturday, the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) said. But a survey of insurers on Sunday showed insurers had logged more than 33,000 claims from the hailstorm, indicating the damage bill has already cleared the $200 million mark. MONSTER: Brisbane's most expensive storm The damage bill is set be the most expensive in the state's history for a hail storm. Greater Brisbane was battered by a super cell system that packed cyclonic winds of up to 140 km/h and peppered the city with hail stones the size of tennis balls. Hail dented cars during peak-hour traffic, apartment windows were smashed and trees blew into homes across a band of Brisbane suburbs. While the CBD was badly impacted, many south Brisbane suburbs bore the brunt of the storm's fury, including Annerley, Moorooka, Fairfield, Kangaroo Point and West End. A Courier-Mail survey of six insurers recorded 33,607 claims as of Sunday afternoon. The last update from industry body the Insurance Council of Australia on Saturday had 21,145 claims with an estimated damage bill of $146 million, an average of $6899. Based on those numbers, the latest tally is likely exceeding $200 million. While Premier Campbell Newman said his "heart goes out" to businesses including car dealerships who may be facing closure in the absence of hail insurance, the government would not step in to help. "I'm afraid that's one of the risks of this state and its climatic extremes," Mr Newman told reporters in Brisbane on Sunday. "Government is not and never has been in the business of bailing out businesses from extreme weather events," he said. The government only is there to look after the most disadvantaged in the community. The Brisbane City Council has authorised the free use of transfer stations so that residents can dump vegetative waste. There had been a huge response to the offer, Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said. We're going to continue now tomorrow to start the curb side clean up. City hall has nominated 58 Brisbane suburbs where residents can leave storm damaged property and vegetation on their nature strips for free collection on Monday. "I just want to remind people that this is not a free for all across the city, it only relates to the 58 nominated suburbs that were storm damaged," Councillor Quirk said. The freak storm highlighted the financial impact Queensland could suffer upon any move by the Commonwealth to alter disaster recovery funding models, Mr Newman said. Footage from POLAIR 2 assessing widespread damage across Brisbane after the hail storm that hit. Courtesy: Queensland Police Service A Productivity Commission report has recommended reducing the burden of the Commonwealth from 75 per cent to 50 when a disaster has been declared. It was the work of "southern-centric" authors, Mr Newman said. It's clearly the work of people in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne - it doesn't recognise the challenges that this state faces and will continue to face because of its climatic extremes. The Queensland government would attempt to persuade federal MPs and Senators to oppose any changes, Mr Newman said. If these had been in place four or five years ago, Queensland would have been financially crippled by now. Insurers have warned customers they could face delays. After the initial storm, some customers spoke of waiting more than an hour on the phone to get to a contact centre. In another case, one customer was told it could be two days before they are contacted for car repairs, even when the customer phoned an associated emergency glass repairer.