You have had a few little negatives Ric just count your blessings and relax, things just are.. neither good or bad ... you will get your wedge in time ..Could you not build one??? it cant be too hard as you dont need much adjustment ...any adjustment could come from the bolts on top of the pier..and you may as well build a pier to put the wedge on
I think you are lucky that really you got everything back to normal in such a short time... and no one was injured..the windscreen could have had very unhappy results, the moniter screen could have died at a more inappropriate time and well there are lots of other unhappy senerios that can come from privet..
See the good luck and you never have bad luck.
best wishes and may you get a better run for a while.
alex