It took one wet season for much of the Inland Empire — and Southern California, for that matter — to turn an extreme drought into a moderate one. No small feat for a seven-month span. In the dry years leading up to this wet season — which is measured here between Oct. 1 and April 30, Californians asked, “What has to happen to pull us out of a drought?” and forecasters painted a picture of almost the exact wet season from which we just emerged.