VANCOUVER — The universe is unfolding as it should when a trucker makes money because somebody else didn’t do their homework.

We whisk you now to Vancouver, home of the 2010 Olympics. To any person born this side of, say, Uranus, it should come as no surprise that this place doesn’t get much snow.

So neither will it shock you to learn that in order to make the Olympic Venue of Cypress Mountain presentable to the world when the Games open next week, the Olympic organizers are trucking the white stuff in.

According to local media, high temperatures and rain have washed away much of the snow at the site north of the city and organizers have been buttressing the base of the runs with wood and hay and they’re importing snow, via truck, from other locations.

At the moment, they’re trucking in about 36 loads a day from as far away as Manning Park, about two hours drive east of Vancouver.

A spokesman for the Olympic organizing committee says the plan is to replenish the finishing areas and training runs to ensure that the venue looks great on TV.

Funny enough, the money being spent on trucking in snow is coming from the unspent snow-removal budget.