I rarely come to this forum, but---can you guys help me? I'm looking to download (or buy) a good CD of a thunderstorm, and/or a good downpour on a tin roof. (And let's not mention how sexy I find this!)

I grew up in a house with a tin roof and little or no insulation in the ceiling. I LOVE drifting off to sleep to the sound of a good thunderstorm, especialy if there's also the sound of rain pinging against a metal roof.

I've bought a few CDs that were supposed to be recordings of this, but most of them had music on them too. I'm looking to find a good, crisp recording of a pour-down rainstorm on a metal roof.

If you like I'll smack a golf ball aorund in the back shed. It makes a real good 'Bing Bang Donk' sound.. If you squint your ears a bit it could pass as a hail bouncing off the roof. If I put a sprinkler on the roof as well... gee you may not even know the difference!

There's a nice rainstorm in Pat Metheny's album entitled "We Live There", it's one of those steering wheel bopping jazz tunes and then in the end, you hear a storm breaking through.
Otherwise, I know what you mean about the tin roof, we often lived in tents or cabins in the summer for two months on end...it was comforting knowing you were inside and the rain outside...though in backpacking trips, you weren't quite as well assured of the latter!

Is this to help you sleep now?
By the way, talking about the Feng Shui craze and the water sounds calming people down, I was working for over a year next to a courtyard in a big old fancy office building and the fountains were close to us, we'd crack open the window whenever possible, and it made quite a droning sound...then at 5 45 pm every evening they'd turn it off and everyone would breathe a great sigh of relief!
Never really knew if it was conducive to good work...
but it sure, well, made people use the facilities if you get my drift...
If not, see the Austiin Powers scene next to the fountain.