Airport Express Blinking Amber after Lightning

I have an Airport Express older plug in brick model I bought in 2012 that has a blinking amber light I cannot fix and need help. Lightning struck near my house the other day and took out 3 lights, power for a few hours, and fried my DSL modem. I assumed it hit a telephone pole as all my electronics are on surge protectors and the modem probably fried due to the telephone line in. So after getting a new DSL modem through Yahoo Japan, my Airport has a blinking amber light. It does not show up in the Airport utility on my MBP, and does not show up on my iPhone. I’m running Mountain Lion on my MBP and using 6.1 Airport Utility, my iPhone is running iOS7. When I run the utility, I see nothing, and nothing in the drop down for other networks, I’ve done soft, hard, and factory resets on the Airport. All of which glow steady amber, then switches to blinking, but I cannot see it to set it up. Internet from the new modem works fine, I’ve tested the line direct to my MBP. And the modem is almost the same as my previous just a newer model. But I should see it regardless if it has internet connected to it right? So is there a way to direct connect to the Airport via Ethernet or USB to set it up, or did the lightning probably fry something inside the Airport as well and I’m SOL and need to somehow get a new one in Japan? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

You have done a factory reset .. that is the only reset that had a chance to work and get it going. What is wrong is not clear.. as it is blinking which shows something is working.
So is there a way to direct connect to the Airport via Ethernet or USB to set it up, or did the lightning probably fry something inside the Airport as well
You can plug it into a Mac or PC by ethernet. Do another factory reset on it.. but you must use the older 5.6 utility.. the new utility seems to be quite useless in finding a TC that is not configured by ethernet.. whereas the old utility had no issues at all. You can load 5.6 onto Mountain Lion or Lion.. but Mavericks is bad news.
Otherwise..
It is toast.. buy a new one.

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